Yegou
Basic information
Sample name: Yegou
Reference: J.-Y. Liu, Y.-Q. Zhang, Z.-Q. Chi, Y. Wang, J.-S. Yang, and S.-H. Zheng. 2022. A Late Pliocene Hipparion houfenense fauna from Yegou, Nihewan Basin and its biostratigraphic significance. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 60(4):278-323 [ER 4059]
Geography
Country: China
State: Hebei
Coordinate: 40° 9' 10" N, 114° 39' 19" E
Coordinate basis: stated in text
Time interval: Late Pliocene
Geography comments: "at Yegou, north of Daodi Village... about 300 m north of the Laowogou section, the stratotype of" the Daodi Formation
"Taken as a whole, the age of the Yegou Hipparion houfenense fauna should be the Late Pliocene before 2.6 Ma"
"Taken as a whole, the age of the Yegou Hipparion houfenense fauna should be the Late Pliocene before 2.6 Ma"
Environment
Lithology: claystone
Habitat comments: "from a big block of collapsed deposits, the lithology of which is dark brownish grey silty clay"
Methods
Life forms: carnivores,ungulates
Sample size: 59 specimens
Years: 2011
Sampling comments: collection methods are not described
specimens are in the IVPP
specimens are in the IVPP
Metadata
Sample number: 4468
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2024-11-14 11:41:48
Modified: 2024-11-14 11:41:48
Abundance distribution
10 species
2 singletons
total count 59
geometric series index: 15.9
Fisher's α: 3.455
geometric series k: 0.7299
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8320
Shannon's H: 1.9951
Good's u: 0.9667
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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Register
| †Nyctereutes tingi | 5 | |
| †Nyctereutes sinensis | 3 | |
| †Pachycrocuta pyrenaica | 1 | |
| Homotherium sp. | 2 | |
| Hipparion houfenense = †Plesiohipparion houfenense | 17 | |
| Rhinocerotidae indet. | 10 | |
| "Dicerorhinus sp.": compared to "Dicerorhinus mercki" (Stephanorhinus kirchbergensis) and "Dicerorhinus megarhinus" (Pliorhinus megarhinus) | ||
| Gazella blacki | 7 | |
| †Axis shansius | 9 | |
| Muntiacus sp. | 1 | |
| Paracamelus sp. | 4 | |