Ten Mile Waterhole Creek
Basic information
Sample name: Ten Mile Waterhole Creek

Sample aka: Ten Mile Creek

Reference: S. R. May. 2019. The Lapara Creek Fauna: Early Clarendonian of south Texas, USA. Palaeontologia Electronica 22.1.15A:1-129 [ER 4065]
Geography
Country: United States

State: Texas

County: Live Oak

Coordinate: 28.34° N, -97.95° W
Latlng basis: estimated from map

Formation: Goliad

Time interval: Middle Miocene

Zone: Cl1

Geography comments: "10 miles east of George West, Texas"
"Ten Mile Waterhole Creek and Bridge Ranch Local Faunas are from the lower Goliad Formation"
"the consistent nature of the very gentle south-southeast dip suggests a stratigraphic order from bottom to top of Ten Mile Waterhole Creek, Bridge Ranch, Farish Ranch and Buckner Ranch"

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Environment
Lithology: not described

Taphonomic context: fluvial deposit

Habitat comments: "Local lithology is variable, although gray to white mudstone, muddy sandstone and carbonate nodule conglomerates are common"
"no significant differences were observed between the horses at Farish Ranch, Ten Mile Waterhole Creek and Buckner Ranch Site 1"

Methods
Life forms: fishes, turtles, rodents, carnivores, ungulates

Excluded forms: clams

Sampling methods: screenwash

Sample size: 104 specimens

Sampled by: Glen Evans, Adolph Witte, Nolan McWhirter, William McAnulty, Joseph Gregory

Years: 1939-1941

Museum: The University of Texas at Austin, American Museum of Natural History, New York and the University of California Museum of Paleontology

Net or trap nights: 0

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: "Another sample was wet-screened because of its close association with bone-bearing conglomerate"

Metadata
Sample no: 4484

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: Nicholas Vine

Modifier no: Nicholas Vine

Created: 2024-11-16 05:30:57

Modified: 2024-11-19 02:13:23

Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
22 species
6 singletons
total count 104
geometric series index: 40.4
Fisher's α: 8.527
geometric series k: 0.8596
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.9025
Shannon's H: 2.6835
Good's u: 0.9429
Register
†Ictalurus cf. lambda 1
Pylodictis olivaris 1
Emydidae indet.2
Apalone sp. 10
†Ceratogaulus cf. rhinocerus 2
†Aelurodon taxoides (bone-crushing dog)4
†Ischyrocyon gidleyi (bear-dog)1
†Gnathabelodon buckneri 1
?
Gomphotherium sp. 4
cf.
†Ramoceros ramosus 5
†Synthetoceras tricornatus 9
†Procamelus occidentalis (camel)4
?
Prosthennops xiphodonticus = †Stirtonhyus xiphodonticus (peccary)1
“Prosthennops”
†Teleoceras major (rhinoceros)7
†Pseudhipparion curtivallum (horse)8
†Cormohipparion occidentale (horse)7
†Neohipparion affine (horse)3
†Calippus placidus (horse)3
†Calippus regulus (horse)24
Pliohippus supremus = †Protohippus cf. supremus (horse)4
†Pliohippus pernix (horse)2
†Hypohippus cf. affinis 1