Exell
Basic information
Sample name: Exell
Sample aka: Site No. P174
Reference: W. W. Dalquest and J. T. Hughes. 1966. A new mammalian local fauna from the lower Pliocene of Texas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 69(1):79-87 [ER 4172]
Geography
Country: United States
State: Texas
County: Moore
Coordinate: 35.66° N, -101.77° W
Coordinate basis: estimated from map
Scale: outcrop
Time interval: Middle Miocene
Zone: Clarendonian
Ma: 12.25
Age basis: AEO
Geography comments: "at the headwaters of South Plum Creek, 4 miles east-northeast of the town of Exell, Moore County, Texas, in the SW 1/4 of Section 2, Block B-10, E. L. and R. R. Survey... The exposed fossiliferous area is less than two acres" (coordinate estimated from the position of the headwaters of Plum Creek using Google Maps)
Environment
Lithology: sandstone
Habitat comments: from "massive sandstones and laminated sandstone and shale layers"
"fossils are few, fragmentary and scattered... The fossil-bearing deposits seem to be floodplain or terrace sediments. Most of the fossils consist of water-worn chips of teeth and bones"
"fossils are few, fragmentary and scattered... The fossil-bearing deposits seem to be floodplain or terrace sediments. Most of the fossils consist of water-worn chips of teeth and bones"
Methods
Life forms: carnivores,ungulates
Sample size: 19 specimens
Years: 1962
Museum: Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum; Midwestern University
Sampling comments: "In June, 1962, students from West Texas State University at Ca Texas, showed the junior author" the site and there were "subsequent visits"
additionally, "In August, 1964, the senior author and students from Midwestern University visited the site"
Schultz (1990) also reports Prosthennops sp., Ustatochoerus sp., and Longirostromeryx sp., all of which are clearly based on material collected later
additionally, "In August, 1964, the senior author and students from Midwestern University visited the site"
Schultz (1990) also reports Prosthennops sp., Ustatochoerus sp., and Longirostromeryx sp., all of which are clearly based on material collected later
Metadata
Sample number: 4632
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Modifier no: John Alroy
Created: 2025-01-03 02:05:10
Modified: 2025-01-03 02:12:15
Abundance distribution
7 species
3 singletons
total count 19
geometric series index: 16.8
Fisher's α: 4.003
geometric series k: 0.7418
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7865
Shannon's H: 1.7398
Good's u: 0.8421
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Register
| †Aelurodon cf. taxoides | 3 | |
| †Pliohippus fossulatus | 6 | |
| †Calippus placidus | 4 | |
| †Calippus regulus | 1 | |
| Pseudhipparion sp. | 3 | |
| "Nannippus gratus": could be Pseudhipparion hessei instead | ||
| Cormohipparion sp. | 1 | |
| "Cormohipparion occidentale": not this species based on the near absence of plications, but probably this genus | ||
| Peraceras cf. superciliosus = †Peraceras cf. superciliosum | 1 | |