Swan Hills Locality 1
Basic information
Sample name: Swan Hills Locality 1
Reference: L. S. Russell. 1967. Palaeontology of the Swan Hills area, north-central Alberta. Royal Ontario Museum Life Sciences Contribution 71:1 [ER 4109]
Geography
Country: Canada
State: Alberta
Coordinate: 54° 47' 39" N, 115° 28' 22" W
Coordinate basis: stated in text
Scale: quarry
Formation: Paskapoo
Time interval: Late Palaeocene
Zone: Tiffanian
Ma: 57.7
Age basis: AEO
Geography comments: on "the north slope of the Swan Hills ridge" in "Legal subdivision 4, Section 16, Township 67, Range 10, West of the 5th Meridian" in an "artifical exposure surrounding" an oil well
said to be late Tiffanian and from the Paskapoo Formation by Fox (1990, GSA Special Paper 243)
said to be late Tiffanian and from the Paskapoo Formation by Fox (1990, GSA Special Paper 243)
Environment
Lithology: shale
Habitat comments: "Most of the rock at this locality is grey bentonitic shale; there are also thin lignitic layers and beds of friable ironstone"
Methods
Life forms: carnivores,primates,ungulates,other large mammals,other small mammals
Sampling methods: screenwash
Sample size: 30 specimens
Years: 1964, 1965
Museum: Royal Ontario Museum
Sampling comments: the site was discovered in 1964 by Russell and his wife and collected by "a 5-man field party" in 1965, and "bags of clay... were disintegrated and screened in the river"
the faunal list was revised by Fox (1990), who notes later collections in 1970 (UALVP) and in 1986 and 1987 (UA) and adds several species
"shells of fresh-water mollusks" including Viviparus planolatere and Lioplacodes nebrascensis are also present, in addition to the fish Stylomyleodon sp.
the faunal list was revised by Fox (1990), who notes later collections in 1970 (UALVP) and in 1986 and 1987 (UA) and adds several species
"shells of fresh-water mollusks" including Viviparus planolatere and Lioplacodes nebrascensis are also present, in addition to the fish Stylomyleodon sp.
Metadata
Sample number: 4537
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Modifier no: John Alroy
Created: 2024-12-02 09:06:47
Modified: 2024-12-02 09:42:06
Abundance distribution
12 species
6 singletons
total count 30
geometric series index: 35.6
Fisher's α: 7.413
geometric series k: 0.8379
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8506
Shannon's H: 2.1810
Good's u: 0.8045
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Register
| †Neoplagiaulax cf. hazeni | 7 | |
| Krause 1977: includes "Ectypodus cochranensis", "Anconodon sp.", and "Prochetodon sp." of Russell | ||
| Neoplagiaulacidae indet. | 1 | |
| "Ectypodus cf. laytoni" not listed by Fox (1990): presumably either Mesodma pygmaea or Neoplagiaulax hunteri | ||
| Elpidophorus sp. | 7 | |
| Fox (1990): said to be new; "Elpidophorus ? elegans"; assumed to include "Eudaemonema cf. cuspidata" because this is not listed by Fox (1990) | ||
| †Diacocherus meizon | 2 | |
| Fox (1990): presumably includes "Diacodon cf. minutus" | ||
| †Leptacodon tener | 3 | |
| Pantolestidae indet. | 1 | |
| ?: not listed by Fox (1990) | ||
| Carpolestes cygneus = †Carpodaptes cygneus | 3 | |
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| †Plesiadapis churchilli | 2 | |
| Fox (1990): "Plesiadapis cf. gidleyi" | ||
| Protictis cf. laytoni = †Viverravus cf. laytoni | 1 | |
| Fox (1990): presumably "? Didymictis sp." | ||
| †Litolestes cf. ignotus | 1 | |
| two numbered fragments thought to be "from the same mandible" | ||
| Arctocyon sp. | 1 | |
| "Claenodon sp." | ||
| Oxyclaeninae indet. | 1 | |
| ?: not listed by Fox (1990) | ||