UCMP locality V77064
Basic information
Sample name: UCMP locality V77064
Reference: K. T. Smith and P. A. Holroyd. 2003. Rare taxa, biostratigraphy, and the Wasatchian-Bridgerian boundary in North America. Geological Society of America Special Paper 369:501-511 [ER 4128]
Geography
Country: United States
State: Wyoming
County: Sublette
Coordinate: 42.72° N, -110.08° W
Coordinate basis: estimated from map
Formation: Wasatch
Time interval: Early Eocene
Zone: Wasatchian
Geography comments: "∼12 miles north of Big Piney" (estimated by assuming this is along the main road heading directly north from Big Piney)
"in the Main Body (formerly Knight Member) of the Wasatch Formation... ∼35 m below the contact of the Wasatch Formation with the Scheggs Bed of the Tipton Shale Member of the Green River Formation"
"assigned to the Lostcabinian"
"in the Main Body (formerly Knight Member) of the Wasatch Formation... ∼35 m below the contact of the Wasatch Formation with the Scheggs Bed of the Tipton Shale Member of the Green River Formation"
"assigned to the Lostcabinian"
Environment
Lithology: mudstone
Habitat comments: "a drab, gray, tan-weathering mudstone"
"Much of the vertebrate material consists of isolated teeth, jaw fragments, and bones (including abundant postcrania), although a few partial skeletons also have been found"
"Much of the vertebrate material consists of isolated teeth, jaw fragments, and bones (including abundant postcrania), although a few partial skeletons also have been found"
Methods
Life forms: carnivores,primates,rodents,ungulates,other large mammals,other small mammals
Sampling methods: screenwash,surface
Sample size: 146 specimens
Sampled by: UCMP
Sampling comments: "collected by surface prospecting and quarrying of associated material"
"fish, turtles, crocodylians, lizards... and freshwater molluscs" are present but not detailed
"fish, turtles, crocodylians, lizards... and freshwater molluscs" are present but not detailed
Metadata
Sample number: 4573
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2024-12-07 08:55:09
Modified: 2024-12-07 08:55:09
Abundance distribution
20 species
7 singletons
total count 146
geometric series index: 39.7
Fisher's α: 6.270
geometric series k: 0.8424
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8802
Shannon's H: 2.3873
Good's u: 0.9523
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Register
| Apatemys sp. | 1 | |
| †Bunophorus macropternus | 1 | |
| Diacodexis sp. | 2 | |
| †Hexacodus pelodes | 1 | |
| †Viverravus lutosus | 3 | |
| †Hyopsodus wortmani | 26 | |
| †Gazinocyon vulpeculus | 2 | |
| Prolimnocyon elisabethae = †Prolimnocyon antiquus | 2 | |
| "Prolimnocyon elizabethae" | ||
| †Eotitanops borealis | 1 | |
| †Heptodon calciculus | 13 | |
| †Hyracotherium index | 21 | |
| Hyracotherium venticolum = †Protorohippus venticolus | 24 | |
| †Lambdotherium popoagicum | 21 | |
| †Orohippus proteros | 1 | |
| †Absarokius abbotti | 4 | |
| †Cantius frugivorus | 6 | |
| Cantius sp. | 1 | |
| large | ||
| †Microsyops knightensis | 12 | |
| †Paramys copei | 3 | |
| Esthonyx sp. | 1 | |