Rabbit Graveyard (Lumpy Level)
Basic information
Sample name: Rabbit Graveyard (Lumpy Level)

Reference: E. P. Gustafson. 1986. Preliminary biostratigraphy of the White River Group (Oligocene, Chadron and Brule formations) in the vicinity of Chadron, Nebraska. Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences 14:7-19 [ER 4137]
Geography
Country: United States

State: Nebraska


County: Dawes


Coordinate: 42.87° N, -103.01° W
Coordinate basis: estimated from map

Scale: outcrop

Formation: Chadron

Time interval: Early Oligocene

Zone: Brule

Section: Chadron

Unit number: 4

Unit order: below to above

Max Ma: 33.726

Min Ma: 33.214

Age basis: paleomag

Geography comments: coordinate based on the map in Fig. 1
from two localities entirely confined to the area's section 4 (see Fig. 1)
from a stratigraphic interval in the Orella Member high in chron C13n (age assignment based on the boundaries of C13n according to Ogg 2020)
the text misidentifies the normal zone in Fig. 3 as chron C11n instead of C13n

Environment
Lithology: siltstone

Habitat comments: "a fossiliferous dark brown clay-siltstone" that "produces mainly microfauna"

Methods
Life forms: carnivores,rodents,ungulates,other small mammals

Sample size: 24 specimens

Museum: Chadron State College

Sampling comments: "This paper is the result of three years of field work" (years not stated)
previous collections not enumerated here were made by the University of Nebraska State Museum and the AMNH

Metadata
Sample number: 4593

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2024-12-09 12:02:18

Modified: 2024-12-09 12:02:18

Abundance distribution
11 species
7 singletons
total count 24
geometric series index: 47.1
Fisher's α: 7.859
geometric series k: 0.7943
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7754
Shannon's H: 1.9658
Good's u: 0.7154
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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