Vedder (USGS locality M1090)
Basic information
Sample name: Vedder (USGS locality M1090)
Reference: J. H. Hutchison and E. H. Lindsay. 1974. The Hemingfordian mammal fauna of the Vedder locality, Branch Canyon Formation, Santa Barbara County, California. Part I: Insectivora, Chiroptera, Lagomorpha, and Rodentia (Sciuridae). PaleoBios 15:1-19 [ER 4158]
Geography
Country: United States
State: California
County: Santa Barbara
Coordinate: 34° 51' 5" N, 119° 33' 13" W
Coordinate basis: stated in text
Scale: quarry
Formation: Branch Canyon
Time interval: Early Miocene
Zone: Hemingfordian
Geography comments: "west of the Cuyama River in a tributary of Tennison Canyon, 34º 51' 05" N, 119º 33' 13" W, at an elevation of 3120 feet"
"All fossils of the Vedder local fauna were collected from an area approximately 60 meters by 30 meters near the top of a small tributary canyon of Santa Barbara Canyon" (Munthe 1979)
said to be Hemingfordian based on the mammals from UCMP locality V6761 and to belong to the "Temblor" stage based on marine invertebrates found west of the locality
thought to be about 17 Ma based on correlation with other faunas, meaning Early Miocene
"All fossils of the Vedder local fauna were collected from an area approximately 60 meters by 30 meters near the top of a small tributary canyon of Santa Barbara Canyon" (Munthe 1979)
said to be Hemingfordian based on the mammals from UCMP locality V6761 and to belong to the "Temblor" stage based on marine invertebrates found west of the locality
thought to be about 17 Ma based on correlation with other faunas, meaning Early Miocene
Environment
Lithology: mudstone
Habitat comments: "a mottled, brown and green mudstone overlying a localized six-inch-thick white limestone and underlying oyster-bearing beds"
Methods
Life forms: carnivores,ungulates
Sample size: 41 specimens
Years: 1967
Museum: USGS
Sampling comments: the general locality was "discovered by J. G. Vedder in 1967"
the general locality "includes only mammals"
the general locality "includes only mammals"
Metadata
Sample number: 4619
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2024-12-18 22:24:52
Modified: 2024-12-18 22:24:52
Abundance distribution
5 species
4 singletons
total count 41
geometric series index: 25.7
Fisher's α: 1.493
geometric series k: 0.4055
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.1628
Shannon's H: 0.4549
Good's u: 0.9024
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