WaKeeney (KU Loc. 29)
Basic information
Sample name: WaKeeney (KU Loc. 29)
Reference: R. L. Wilson. 1968. Systematics and faunal analysis of a Lower Pliocene vertebrate assemblage from Trego County, Kansas. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 22(7):75-126 [ER 4176]
Geography
Country: United States
State: Kansas
County: Trego
Coordinate: 39.09° N, -99.76° W
Coordinate basis: stated in text
Scale: quarry
Time interval: Late Miocene
Zone: Clarendonian
Section: WaKeeney
Unit number: 1
Unit order: below to above
Ma: 11.2
Age basis: AEO
Geography comments: "northwest of Ogallah... on the Lowell Hillman Ranch... 2450 feet south and 10 feet east of the NE corner Sec. 21, R22W, T11S. Elevation is 2255 feet"
"either the lower portion of the Ash Hollow Member or the upper portion of the Valentine Member of the Ogallala Formation" (now ranked as formations within the Ogallala Group)
underlies UM-K6-59
"either the lower portion of the Ash Hollow Member or the upper portion of the Valentine Member of the Ogallala Formation" (now ranked as formations within the Ogallala Group)
underlies UM-K6-59
Environment
Lithology: siliciclastic (mixed)
Taphonomic context: overbank deposit
Habitat comments: "a flood-plain deposit typified by a rather heterogeneous clastic lithology alternating from pebble to clay"
Methods
Life forms: rodents,ungulates
Sample size: 15 specimens
Museum: University of Kansas; University of Michigan
Sampling comments: the general area was worked episodically from "Around 1941" through 1966
Metadata
Sample number: 4638
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2025-01-04 10:54:30
Modified: 2025-01-04 10:54:30
Abundance distribution
8 species
4 singletons
total count 15
geometric series index: 26.5
Fisher's α: 6.966
geometric series k: 0.8203
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8238
Shannon's H: 1.9338
Good's u: 0.7511
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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Register
| Epigaulus minor = †Ceratogaulus minor | 1 | |
| †Eucastor phillisi | 1 | |
| Camelidae indet. | 1 | |
| "? Procamelus" | ||
| †Calippus martini | 4 | |
| Hulbert pers. commun.: "Astrohippus" | ||
| †Neohipparion cf. affine | 2 | |
| Cormohipparion sp. | 3 | |
| "Neohipparion cf. occidentale" | ||
| Nannippus sp. | 2 | |
| "Hipparion cf. lenticularis" | ||
| Pseudhipparion sp. | 1 | |
| "cf. Griphippus" | ||