Princeton Quarry
Basic information
Sample name: Princeton Quarry
Sample aka: Silver Coulee Quarry; SC-187
Reference: G. L. Jepsen. 1940. Paleocene faunas of the Polecat Bench Formation, Park County, Wyoming: Part I. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 83(2):217-340 [ER 4104]
Geography
Country: United States
State: Wyoming
County: Park
Coordinate: 44.9° N, -108.93° W
Latlng basis: stated in text
Scale: quarry
Formation: Polecat Bench
Time interval: Late Palaeocene
Zone: Tiffanian
Max Ma: 58.959
Min Ma: 57.656
Age basis: paleomag
Geography comments: referred to as the "Silver Coulee quarry" by Jepsen, but Princeton Quarry by later authors
"sec. 21, T. 57 N., R. 100 W." (SE1/4 according to Rose 1981)
thought by Jepsen to be about 2400 feet above the base of the Fortin the Clark's Fork section, but 2200 feet above and in "the upper part of the Polecat Bench Formation" according to Rose (1981)
thought to be "intermediate in age" between Mason Pocket and Bear Creek and "later, but not latest, Tiffanian" (Rose 1981)
chron 25R according to Butler et al. (1981) (age estimate based on Ogg 2020)
"sec. 21, T. 57 N., R. 100 W." (SE1/4 according to Rose 1981)
thought by Jepsen to be about 2400 feet above the base of the Fortin the Clark's Fork section, but 2200 feet above and in "the upper part of the Polecat Bench Formation" according to Rose (1981)
thought to be "intermediate in age" between Mason Pocket and Bear Creek and "later, but not latest, Tiffanian" (Rose 1981)
chron 25R according to Butler et al. (1981) (age estimate based on Ogg 2020)
Environment
Lithology: sandstone
Habitat comments: "a fine grained gray green sandstone" that is "almost a siltstone" according to Rose (1981)
specimens include "a number of articulated skulls and jaws, vertebral columns, limbs, and complete skeletons" with "little evidence of transportation"
specimens include "a number of articulated skulls and jaws, vertebral columns, limbs, and complete skeletons" with "little evidence of transportation"
Methods
Life forms: carnivores, primates, ungulates, other large mammals, other small mammals
Sampling methods: quarry
Sample size: 533 specimens
Museum: Princeton University, UMMP, MCZ
Net or trap nights: 0
Basal area status: not applicable
Sampling comments: metadata are from Jepsen except where noted, but the faunal list is from Rose (1981)
"discovered by G. L. Jepsen... in the late 1920s... Most of the collection... is at Princeton University. Smaller samples are housed at the University of Michigan and the Museum of Comparative Zoology"
12 additional species found in "close proximity" to the quarry are listed by Rose
"discovered by G. L. Jepsen... in the late 1920s... Most of the collection... is at Princeton University. Smaller samples are housed at the University of Michigan and the Museum of Comparative Zoology"
12 additional species found in "close proximity" to the quarry are listed by Rose
Metadata
Sample no: 4529
Contributor no: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2024-12-01 02:32:12
Modified: 2024-12-01 02:32:12
Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
37 species
7 singletons
total count 533
geometric series index: 58.2
Fisher's α: 9.038
geometric series k: 0.8772
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8878
Shannon's H: 2.6664
Good's u: 0.9869
Register
| †Neoliotomus conventus | 4 | |
| †Microcosmodon conus | 7 | |
| type | ||
| †Pentacosmodon pronus | 2 | |
| type | ||
| †Prochetodon cavus | 12 | |
| type | ||
| †Neoplagiaulax hazeni | 4 | |
| type | ||
| †Mimetodon churchilli | 2 | |
| type | ||
| †Parectypodus laytoni | 9 | |
| type | ||
| †Ectypodus powelli | 10 | |
| new: plus 5 indeterminate neoplagiaulacids "probably" belonging to the above four species | ||
| †Peradectes elegans | 4 | |
| Didelphidae indet. | 1 | |
| Secord (2008): "? Peratherium sp." | ||
| †Palaeoryctes jepseni | 11 | |
| Secord (2008): "cf. Palaeoryctes sp."; "Palaeoryctes cf. punctatus" of Gingerich (1982) | ||
| †Prodiacodon paucus | 2 | |
| Secord (2008): type; "Prodiacodon cf. concordiarcensis" | ||
| Palaeictops sp. | 3 | |
| ? | ||
| †Unuchinia cf. dysmathes | 3 | |
| Secord (2008): "Unuchinia sp." | ||
| †Leptacodon packi | 8 | |
| type | ||
| †Litolestes ignotus | 25 | |
| type | ||
| Diacodon minutus = †Adunator minutus | 43 | |
| in quotes: said to be new | ||
| †Adunator abditus | 1 | |
| Secord (2008): type; one specimen of Rose's "Adapisoricid or nyctithere indet." | ||
| †Wyonycteris galensis | 2 | |
| Secord (2008): type; two specimens of Rose's "Adapisoricid or nyctithere indet." | ||
| Nyctitheriidae indet. | 1 | |
| Secord (2008); one specimen of Rose's "Adapisoricid or nyctithere indet."; the other 7 are not allocated | ||
| Eutheria indet. Apternodus-like A | 1 | |
| Eutheria indet. Apternodus-like B | 1 | |
| †Micromomys silvercouleei | 1 | |
| type | ||
| †Plesiadapis fodinatus | 112 | |
| type | ||
| †Carpolestes dubius | 48 | |
| type | ||
| †Phenacolemur pagei | 51 | |
| type | ||
| †Princetonia cf. yalensis | 14 | |
| Secord (2008): "Princetonia yalensis" of Gingerich (1989); "cf. Tricentes sp." | ||
| Thryptacodon sp. | 3 | |
| Arctocyon sp. | 1 | |
| Secord (2008): "Claenodon sp." | ||
| †Phenacodus grangeri | 3 | |
| Secord (2008): "Phenacodus sp." | ||
| †Ectocion mediotuber | 15 | |
| Thewissen (1990): type; "E. osbornianus" | ||
| †Phenacodaptes sabulosus | 103 | |
| †Dissacus argenteus | 5 | |
| O'Leary and Rose (1995): new; "Dissacus cf. navajovius" | ||
| Protictis dellensis = †Didymictis dellensis (viverravid) | 5 | |
| Gingerich and Winkler (1985): "Didymictis sp." said to be possibly new | ||
| Protictis schaffi = †Viverravus schaffi (viverravid) | 12 | |
| Gingerich and Winkler (1985): "cf. Viverravus sp." said to be new | ||
| Protictis laytoni = †Viverravus laytoni (viverravid) | 2 | |
| Gingerich and Winkler (1985): "viverravine, sp. A"; one specimen of Rose's "Viverravinae indet. B" is omitted by Secord (2008) | ||
| †Propalaeanodon schaffi | 2 | |