Donna's Locality
Basic information
Sample name: Donna's Locality
Sample aka: UCM Loc. 92189
Reference: T. S. Kelly and P. C. Murphey. 2016. Mammals from the earliest Uintan (middle Eocene) Turtle Bluff Member, Bridger Formation, southwestern Wyoming, USA, Part 1: Primates and Rodentia. Palaeontologia Electronica 19(2):1-55 [ER 4133]
Geography
Country: United States
State: Wyoming
County: Uinta
Coordinate: 41.09° N, -110.08° W
Latlng basis: estimated from map
Formation: Bridger
Time interval: Middle Eocene
Zone: Bridgerian
Section: Turtle Bluff
Unit number: 2
Unit order: below to above
Max Ma: 47.76
Min Ma: 47.31
Age basis: other
Geography comments: on the western edge of Cedar Mountain and east of Lonetree Divide
coordinate estimated from the map in Fig. 1
above the base of C21n (47.760 Ma according to Ogg 2020) and below a "tuffaceous white sandstone bed" U-Pb dated at 47.31 ± 0.06
earliest Middle Eocene based on these dates
coordinate estimated from the map in Fig. 1
above the base of C21n (47.760 Ma according to Ogg 2020) and below a "tuffaceous white sandstone bed" U-Pb dated at 47.31 ± 0.06
earliest Middle Eocene based on these dates
Environment
Lithology: claystone
Habitat comments: Fig. 2 indicates that the site is in a claystone
Methods
Life forms: carnivores, primates, rodents, ungulates, other small mammals
Sampling methods: screenwash
Sample size: 132 specimens
Museum: SDSNH
Net or trap nights: 0
Basal area status: not applicable
Sampling comments: "bulk samples were liquid screen washed resulting in concentrates from which the fossils were separated by heavy liquid floatation"
the Turtle Bluff Member inventories are derived from Kelly and Murphey (2016), Murphey and Kelly (2017), and Murphey et al. (2018)
the Turtle Bluff Member inventories are derived from Kelly and Murphey (2016), Murphey and Kelly (2017), and Murphey et al. (2018)
Metadata
Sample no: 4580
Contributor no: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Modifier no: John Alroy
Created: 2024-12-08 05:50:31
Modified: 2025-01-05 05:59:04
Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
35 species
15 singletons
total count 132
geometric series index: 85.7
Fisher's α: 15.558
geometric series k: 0.9119
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.9222
Shannon's H: 3.0168
Good's u: 0.8871
Register
| †Uintasorex parvulus | 1 | |
| †Microsyops annectens | 2 | |
| †Notharctus robustior | 3 | |
| †Trogolemur myodes | 2 | |
| †Omomys carteri | 2 | |
| †Washakius insignis | 1 | |
| †Microparamys minutus | 3 | |
| †Thisbemys corrugatus | 1 | |
| †Sciuravus nitidus | 1 | |
| †Tillomys senex | 2 | |
| †Tillomys ? parvidens | 1 | |
| †Taxymys lucaris | 5 | |
| Sciuravidae indet. A | 21 | |
| Sciuravidae indet. C | 1 | |
| Pareumys sp. | 6 | |
| cf. | ||
| Metanoiamys sp. | 7 | |
| Rodentia indet. | 1 | |
| †Apatemys bellulus | 6 | |
| †Apatemys rodens | 5 | |
| †Scenopagus priscus | 1 | |
| †Scenopagus curtidens | 5 | |
| †Entomolestes westgatei | 7 | |
| type | ||
| †Centetodon bembicophagus | 2 | |
| †Centetodon pulcher | 7 | |
| †Nyctitherium gunnelli | 1 | |
| †Nyctitherium velox | 4 | |
| †Pontifactor bestiola | 1 | |
| Oligoryctidae indet. | 1 | |
| †Viverravus gracilis (viverravid) | 1 | |
| †Hyopsodus lepidus | 2 | |
| †Triplopus cf. obliquidens (hyracodont) | 1 | |
| †Homacodon cf. vagans | 1 | |
| †Merycobunodon ? walshi | 1 | |
| new | ||
| †Herpetotherium knighti | 23 | |
| †Peradectes chesteri | 3 | |