Holly's Microsite
Basic information
Sample name: Holly's Microsite
Sample aka: SC-188
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: 44.85° N, -109.10° W
Coordinate basis: stated in text
Formation: Willwood
Time interval: Late Palaeocene
Zone: Clarkforkian
Geography comments: "SE 1/4, S 1, T 56 N, R 102 W, and SW 1/4, S 6, T 56 N, R 101 W (Sec. 4)"
assigned to the Plesiadapis cookei zone of the Clarkforkian
the meter level is said to be 1280 m by Gunnell and Gingerich (1991) and appears to be 1260 m in Fig. 3 of Krause (1986)
assigned to the Plesiadapis cookei zone of the Clarkforkian
the meter level is said to be 1280 m by Gunnell and Gingerich (1991) and appears to be 1260 m in Fig. 3 of Krause (1986)
Environment
Lithology: mudstone
Habitat comments: "Gray mudstone at the base of this locality contains a pocket that, through quarrying and screen-washing, has yielded the richest Clarkforkian collection from a single site in the Clark's Fork Basin" but several "larger specimens" have "been excavated from drab mudstones slightly above the level of the quarry"
Methods
Life forms: carnivores,primates,rodents,ungulates,other large mammals,other small mammals
Sampling methods: quarry,screenwash
Sample size: 222 specimens
Years: 1977
Museum: UMMP
Sampling comments: "discovered in 1977 by B. Holly Smith"
"we found surface concentrations of small vertebrates, screenwashing was performed" and was "highly successful" and the site was quarried "extensively": "About 30 sacks (approximately one ton) of matrix have been washed"
see also Krause (1986)
"we found surface concentrations of small vertebrates, screenwashing was performed" and was "highly successful" and the site was quarried "extensively": "About 30 sacks (approximately one ton) of matrix have been washed"
see also Krause (1986)
Metadata
Sample number: 4531
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Modifier no: John Alroy
Created: 2024-12-01 04:27:32
Modified: 2024-12-01 04:50:39
Abundance distribution
30 species
11 singletons
total count 222
geometric series index: 60.6
Fisher's α: 9.350
geometric series k: 0.8709
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8898
Shannon's H: 2.6618
Good's u: 0.9506
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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Register
| †Microcosmodon rosei | 3 | |
| type | ||
| †Ectypodus powelli | 10 | |
| †Peradectes protinnominatus | 11 | |
| Krishtalka and Stucky (1983): "Peradectes cf. chesteri" | ||
| †Prodiacodon cf. tauricinerei | 3 | |
| †Labidolemur kayi | 1 | |
| Krause (1986): :"Apatemys sp." | ||
| †Leptacodon rosei | 11 | |
| Gingerich (1987): "Leptacodon cf. packi" | ||
| †Plagioctenodon cf. krausae | 2 | |
| †Leipsanolestes siegfriedti | 1 | |
| Diacodon cf. minutus = †Diacocherus cf. minutus | 4 | |
| †Worlandia inusitata | 32 | |
| type | ||
| †Niptomomys doreenae | 3 | |
| †Tinimomys graybulliensis | 2 | |
| †Plesiadapis cookei | 15 | |
| †Carpolestes simpsoni | 15 | |
| Bloch and Gingerich (1998): "Carpolestes nigridens" | ||
| Phenacolemur pagei = †Dillerlemur pagei | 12 | |
| †Ignacius graybullianus | 3 | |
| †Thryptacodon cf. antiquus | 1 | |
| †Phenacodus intermedius | 2 | |
| Thewissen (1990): "Phenacodus primaevus" | ||
| †Ectocion osbornianus | 16 | |
| †Haplomylus simpsoni | 1 | |
| Dissacus sp. | 1 | |
| Coryphodon sp. | 1 | |
| †Esthonyx ancylion | 1 | |
| †Arctostylops steini | 1 | |
| †Didymictis proteus | 9 | |
| Polly (1997): "Didymictis protenus protenus" | ||
| Viverravus cf. bowni = †Viverravus cf. laytoni | 3 | |
| Krause (1986): "Viverravus sp." said to be new | ||
| †Uintacyon rudis | 1 | |
| Oxyaena aequidens = †Dipsalidictis aequidens | 1 | |
| †Paramys atavus | 55 | |
| apparently also includes 17 specimens of "Paramys sp." | ||
| †Microparamys cheradius | 1 | |
| Ivy (1990): one specimen of Rose's is definitely this species: the type and others appear to have been collected later; Ivy's three Reithroparamys sp. specimens also appear to have been | ||