Y2K Quarry
Basic information
Sample name: Y2K 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° 52' 18" N, 109° 52' 19" W
Latlng basis: stated in text

Scale: quarry

Time interval: Late Palaeocene

Zone: Tiffanian

Section: Polecat Bench

Unit number: 6

Unit order: below to above

Max Ma: 58.959

Min Ma: 57.656

Age basis: paleomag

Geography comments: the location is stated in UTM coordinates
within Ti-5b, within chron 25r, and at 692 m (the age assignment is based on 25r and follows Ogg 2000)

Environment
Lithology: mudstone

Habitat comments: Y2K is one of the area's "mudstone quarries" which "show little or no evidence of water transport, and associated dental material is not uncommon"

Methods
Life forms: carnivores, primates, ungulates, other large mammals, other small mammals

Sample size: 293 specimens

Years: 2000

Net or trap nights: 0

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: "One important discovery made in 2000 was Y2K Quarry (Secord et al., 2002), which is late Tiffanian in age, and has yielded a diverse collection of micromammals"
information on sampling methods is otherwise not given

Metadata
Sample no: 4565

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2024-12-06 22:10:52

Modified: 2024-12-06 22:10:52

Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
22 species
5 singletons
total count 293
geometric series index: 34.8
Fisher's α: 5.511
geometric series k: 0.8235
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8759
Shannon's H: 2.3957
Good's u: 0.983
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