Bartlett High
Basic information
Sample name: Bartlett High

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: 5

Unit order: below to above

Max Ma: 33.214

Min Ma: 30.977

Age basis: paleomag

Geography comments: coordinate based on the map in Fig. 1
from three localities entirely confined to the area's section 4 (see Fig. 1)
from a stratigraphic interval within chron C12r (age assignment based on the boundaries of C12r according to Ogg 2020)
the text misidentifies the normal zone in Fig. 3 as chron C11n instead of C13n
"about 20 to 25 ft (6.2-7.7 m) thick, beginning 135 ft (41.2 m) above the PWL"

Environment
Lithology: siltstone

Habitat comments: "A massive light brown siltstone"

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

Sample size: 42 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: 4594

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2024-12-09 12:06:26

Modified: 2024-12-09 12:06:26

Abundance distribution
12 species
5 singletons
total count 42
geometric series index: 30.2
Fisher's α: 5.612
geometric series k: 0.7772
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7944
Shannon's H: 1.9920
Good's u: 0.8843
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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