Fantasia
Basic information
Sample name: Fantasia

Sample aka: Carter Mountain; UW V-78001

Reference: J. G. Eaton. 1982. Paleontology and correlation of Eocene volcanic rocks in the Carter Mountain area, Park County, southeastern Absaroka Range, Wyoming. University of Wyoming Contributions to Geology 21(2):153-194 [ER 4142]
Geography
Country: United States

State: Wyoming

County: Park

Coordinate: 44.29° N, -109.25° W
Latlng basis: stated in text

Formation: Wiggins

Time interval: Early Eocene

Zone: Bridgerian

Ma: 48.41

Age basis: Ar-Ar

Geography comments: shown in Fig. 18 as within the Blue Point marker just under the base of the Wiggins Formation near the north end of Carter Mountain
"in sec. 21, T. 50 N., R. 103 W." (see Fig. 17)
the Blue Point marker is not assigned to a formation because it underlies both the Wiggins and the Tepee Trail and overlies both the Wapiti and the Aycross (Fig. 5)
thought to be equivalent to Bridger B or C
there is a "K:Ar date of 47.9 my ± 0.5 my" on the Blue Point marker (p. 190), which is just younger than the top of the Early Eocene
the marker has since been dated at 48.41 ± 0.17, apparently using Ar/Ar dating (Tsukui et al. 2012)

Environment
Lithology: conglomerate

Habitat comments: the Blue Point marker is "a distinctive conglomerate-ash-conglomerate sequence"

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

Sample size: 299 specimens

Years: 1978

Museum: University of Wyoming

Net or trap nights: 0

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: collecting methods are not discussed

Metadata
Sample no: 4601

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Modifier no: John Alroy

Created: 2024-12-12 06:26:59

Modified: 2025-01-04 04:18:24

Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
34 species
5 singletons
total count 299
geometric series index: 54.0
Fisher's α: 9.875
geometric series k: 0.882
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8954
Shannon's H: 2.7673
Good's u: 0.9835
Register
Palaeictops cf. bridgeri 1
Scenopagus curtidens 1
Notharctus sp. 4
Absarokius sp. 1
cf.
Anaptomorphus sp. 2
Omomys carteri 3
Washakius insignis 6
Microsyops annectens 54
includes an additional specimen described as "Microsyops cf. annectens": Gunnell (1989)
Microsyops cf. elegans 1
Trogosus hyracoides = †Trogosus cf. castoridens 2
Paramys cf. delicatior 7
includes one specimen of "Pseudotomus robustus" according to Korth (1985)
Paramys cf. copei 7
Paramys excavatus 5
Paramys wyomingensis = †Acritoparamys wyomingensis 23
Leptotomus parvus 33
Leptotomus cf. parvus 2
not the same species
Leptotomus huerfanensis = †Thisbemys cf. perditus 10
Thisbemys plicatus 11
Thisbemys cf. nini 2
Reithroparamys sp. 7
Microparamys cf. minutus 2
Pseudotomus robustus 4
Pseudotomus sundelli = †Quadratomus sundelli 8
type
Sciuravus sp. 4
Tritemnodon sp. 2
cf.
Viverravus cf. sicarius (viverravid)9
Uintacyon major = †Miocyon cf. major 2
Mesonychidae indet.2
Hyopsodus cf. paulus 63
Phenacodus sp. 3
"Phenacodus primaevus"
Orohippus sp. 11
Brontotheriidae indet.1
"cf. Palaeosyops sp.": possibly Eotitanops
Diacodexis sp. 4
Helohyus validus = †Helohyus plicodon 2