UMMP SC-54
Basic information
Sample name: UMMP SC-54
Reference: K. D. Rose. 1981. The Clarkforkian land-mammal age and mammalian faunal composition across the Paleocene-Eocene boundary. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 26:1-197 [ER 4102]
Geography
Country: United States
State: Wyoming
County: Park
Coordinate: 44.80° N, -109.10° W
Coordinate basis: estimated from map
Formation: Willwood
Time interval: Early Eocene
Zone: Wasatchian
Geography comments: shown approximately in sec. 25 or 26, T56N, R102W based on the map of Gingerich et al. (1980, Fig. 2), on the eastern side of Little Sand Coulee and very close to SC-2
from the 1720 to 1760 m level in the section according to Gingerich (1989)
from the 1720 to 1760 m level in the section according to Gingerich (1989)
Environment
Lithology: not described
Methods
Life forms: carnivores,primates,rodents,ungulates,other large mammals,other small mammals
Sample size: 618 specimens
Museum: UMMP
Sampling comments: collecting history and methods are not discussed
the following species appear to have been collected from SC-54 after the inventory was published: Neoliotomus ultimus (Krause 1982), Teilhardina crassidens-americana (Bown and Rose 1987), Didymictis leptomylus (Polly 1997), Palaeonictis occidentalis (Gunnell and Gingerich 1991), Prototomus martis (Gingerich and Deutsch 1989)
the following species appear to have been collected from SC-54 after the inventory was published: Neoliotomus ultimus (Krause 1982), Teilhardina crassidens-americana (Bown and Rose 1987), Didymictis leptomylus (Polly 1997), Palaeonictis occidentalis (Gunnell and Gingerich 1991), Prototomus martis (Gingerich and Deutsch 1989)
Metadata
Sample number: 4533
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Modifier no: John Alroy
Created: 2024-12-01 10:33:06
Modified: 2024-12-01 10:46:30
Abundance distribution
27 species
5 singletons
total count 618
geometric series index: 39.8
Fisher's α: 5.764
geometric series k: 0.8195
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8501
Shannon's H: 2.3053
Good's u: 0.9919
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Register
| †Didelphodus absarokae | 3 | |
| Apatemys sp. | 1 | |
| †Arctodontomys wilsoni | 4 | |
| Gunnell (1989): "Microsyops sp." | ||
| †Phenacolemur praecox | 19 | |
| †Ignacius graybullianus | 5 | |
| Adapidae indet. | 49 | |
| "Pelycodus sp.": could be Cantius | ||
| †Thryptacodon antiquus | 3 | |
| Phenacodus sp. | 4 | |
| "Phenacodus primaevus" (a nomen dubium: see Thewissen 1990) | ||
| †Ectocion osbornianus | 49 | |
| see also Thewissen (1990) | ||
| Hyopsodus sp. | 111 | |
| more than one form | ||
| †Haplomylus speirianus | 60 | |
| †Apheliscus chydaeus | 2 | |
| Gingerich (1995): "Apheliscus sp." | ||
| Pachyaena sp. | 1 | |
| Coryphodon sp. | 4 | |
| †Esthonyx spatularius | 9 | |
| †Hyracotherium grangeri | 177 | |
| Gingerich (1991): "Hyracotherium sp." | ||
| †Cardiolophus radinskyi | 7 | |
| Gingerich (1991): "Homogalax sp." | ||
| †Diacodexis metsiacus | 64 | |
| †Didymictis protenus | 4 | |
| see also Polly (1997) | ||
| †Viverravus acutus | 4 | |
| see also Polly (1997) | ||
| †Uintacyon cf. massetericus | 1 | |
| †Miacis exiguus | 1 | |
| also 7 "Unidentified carnivore or insectivore (2 or 3 spp.)" | ||
| †Dipsalidictis transiens | 5 | |
| Gunnell and Gingerich (1991): "Oxyaena sp." | ||
| †Arfia shoshoniensis | 14 | |
| Gingerich and Deutsch (1989): "Arfia sp." | ||
| †Prolimnocyon haematus | 3 | |
| Gingerich and Deutsch (1989): type; "Prolimnocyon cf. atavus" | ||
| Hyaenodontidae indet. | 1 | |
| small | ||
| Paramys sp. | 13 | |
| more than one form | ||