Fossil Butte (FB-16)
Basic information
Sample name: Fossil Butte (FB-16)

Reference: G. F. Gunnell, J.-P. Zonneveld, and W. S. Bartels. 2016. Stratigraphy, mammalian paleontology, paleoecology, and age correlation of the Wasatch Formation, Fossil Butte National Monument, Wyoming. Journal of Paleontology 90(5):981-1011 [ER 4124]
Geography
Country: United States

State: Wyoming



Coordinate: 41.86° N, -110.75° W
Coordinate basis: estimated from map

Formation: Wasatch

Time interval: Early Eocene

Zone: Wasatchian

Geography comments: near the top of the Valley Center section
"from the uppermost 180 m of the main body of the Wasatch Formation"
of "middle to late early Eocene age (Wa-6-Wa-7)"

Environment
Lithology: sandstone

Habitat comments: shown in Fig. 1 to be at the western edge of the center of sec. 30, R117W, T22N
from thin beds of sandstone within a "mottled yellow mudstone"
it is not clear whether these are channel or overbank sandstones

Methods
Life forms: primates,rodents,ungulates,other large mammals,other small mammals

Sample size: 25 specimens

Museum: Fossil Butte National Monument

Sampling comments: collection methods are not stated

Metadata
Sample number: 4566

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2024-12-07 01:58:20

Modified: 2024-12-07 01:58:20

Abundance distribution
13 species
9 singletons
total count 25
geometric series index: 63.6
Fisher's α: 10.915
geometric series k: 0.8503
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8483
Shannon's H: 2.2412
Good's u: 0.6465
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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