Croc Tooth Quarry
Basic information
Sample name: Croc Tooth Quarry
Reference: R. Secord. 2008. The Tiffanian land-mammal age (middle and late Paleocene) in the northern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 35:1-192 [ER 4123]
Geography
Country: United States
State: Wyoming
County: Park
Coordinate: 45° 41' 48" N, 108° 19' 12" W
Latlng basis: stated in text
Scale: quarry
Time interval: Late Palaeocene
Zone: Tiffanian
Section: Polecat Bench
Unit number: 5
Unit order: below to above
Max Ma: 59.237
Min Ma: 58.959
Age basis: paleomag
Geography comments: the location is stated in UTM coordinates
within Ti-4b, within chron 26n, and at 365 m (415 m in the composite northwestern Wyoming section of Gingerich 2001) (the age assignment is based on 26r and follows Ogg 2000)
within Ti-4b, within chron 26n, and at 365 m (415 m in the composite northwestern Wyoming section of Gingerich 2001) (the age assignment is based on 26r and follows Ogg 2000)
Environment
Lithology: not described
Habitat comments: I am unable to locate a description of the lithology or taphonomy in Secord (2008)
Methods
Life forms: carnivores, primates, ungulates, other large mammals, other small mammals
Sample size: 69 specimens
Net or trap nights: 0
Basal area status: not applicable
Sampling comments: information on sampling methods is not given
Neoplagiaulax mckennai was reported by Sloan (1978), but Secord was unable to confirm the identification
Neoplagiaulax mckennai was reported by Sloan (1978), but Secord was unable to confirm the identification
Metadata
Sample no: 4564
Contributor no: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Modifier no: John Alroy
Created: 2024-12-06 21:45:32
Modified: 2024-12-06 22:08:39
Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
21 species
9 singletons
total count 69
geometric series index: 52.1
Fisher's α: 10.28
geometric series k: 0.8764
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.9013
Shannon's H: 2.6418
Good's u: 0.8708
Register
| †Ptilodus kummae | 8 | |
| Eucosmodontidae indet. | 1 | |
| †Titanoides gidleyi | 14 | |
| †Leptolambda churchilli | 1 | |
| †Haplolambda cf. quinni | 2 | |
| †Bessoecetor pilodontus | 1 | |
| type | ||
| †Bessoecetor cf. septentrionalis | 1 | |
| Raphictis sp. | 1 | |
| ? | ||
| †Cyriacotherium argyreum | 1 | |
| †Plesiadapis churchilli | 9 | |
| †Plesiadapis cf. fodinatus | 3 | |
| †Chiromyoides caesor | 1 | |
| †Ignacius frugivorus | 1 | |
| †Phenacolemur archus | 4 | |
| type | ||
| †Thryptacodon australis | 2 | |
| †Arctocyon mumak | 3 | |
| Arctocyon sp. | 3 | |
| small | ||
| †Lambertocyon eximius | 1 | |
| †Phenacodus grangeri | 7 | |
| †Phenacodus magnus | 2 | |
| †Ectocion cedrus | 3 | |