Red Light (TMM 40857)
Basic information
Sample name: Red Light (TMM 40857)
Reference: W. A. Akersten. 1970. Red Light local fauna (Blancan) of the Love Formation, southeastern Hudspeth County, Texas. Bulletin of the Texas Memorial Museum 20:1-53 [ER 4185]
Geography
Country: United States
State: Texas
County: Hudspeth
Coordinate: 30.86° N, -105.25° W
Coordinate basis: estimated from map
Formation: Love
Time interval: Late Pliocene
Zone: Blancan
Ma: 2.9
Age basis: AEO
Geography comments: coordinate estimate from Fig. 2 using Google Maps
Environment
Lithology: siliciclastic (mixed)
Taphonomic context: fluvial deposit
Habitat comments: "fluvial sand and silt with minor amounts of graunule- to pebble-size material"
Methods
Life forms: rodents,ungulates,other small mammals
Sampling methods: screenwash
Sample size: 15 specimens
Museum: Texas Memorial Museum
Sampling comments: "collected by surface picking and, at locality TMM 40857, by dry screening and washing"
fishes, frogs, turtles, lizards, snakes, and birds are present somewhere in the Red Light field area
fishes, frogs, turtles, lizards, snakes, and birds are present somewhere in the Red Light field area
Metadata
Sample number: 4650
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2025-01-09 10:20:01
Modified: 2025-01-09 10:20:01
Abundance distribution
8 species
6 singletons
total count 15
geometric series index: 47.2
Fisher's α: 6.966
geometric series k: 0.7573
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7190
Shannon's H: 1.7075
Good's u: 0.6093
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Register
| Geomys paenebursarius = †Nerterogeomys paenebursarius | 7 | |
| Prodipodomys sp. | 1 | |
| Perognathinae indet. | 1 | |
| "Perognathus sp." | ||
| Onychomys sp. | 1 | |
| †Sigmodon hudspethensis | 2 | |
| Leporidae indet. A | 1 | |
| Leporidae indet. B | 1 | |
| Nannippus phlegon = †Nannippus peninsulatus | 1 | |