Ferris Formation (UW locality V-91005)
Basic information
Sample name: Ferris Formation (UW locality V-91005)

Reference: J. J. Eberle and J. A. Lillegraven. 1998. A new important record of earliest Cenozoic mammalian history: geologic setting, Multituberculata, and Peradectia. Rocky Mountain Geology 33(1):3-47 [ER 4135]
Geography
Country: United States

State: Wyoming

County: Carbon

Coordinate: 41.95° N, -106.88° W
Latlng basis: estimated from map

Formation: Ferris

Time interval: Early Palaeocene

Zone: Puercan

Section: Ferris

Unit number: 3

Unit order: below to above

Geography comments: near the north-central edge of sec. 28, T. 23 N., R. 84 W.
said to be in the basal Pu2 zone

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Environment
Lithology: sandstone

Habitat comments: shown in Fig. 2 as coming from a sandstone bed

Methods
Life forms: ungulates

Sample size: 15 specimens

Years: 1991

Museum: University of Wyoming

Net or trap nights: 0

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: presumably discovered in 1991
collecting methods not specified, possibly screenwashed
counts are based on two companion papers by Eberle and Lillegraven (1998), ER refs 4135 and 4136

Metadata
Sample no: 4588

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Modifier no: John Alroy

Created: 2024-12-09 04:24:15

Modified: 2024-12-09 04:30:31

Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
10 species
8 singletons
total count 15
geometric series index: 76.9
Fisher's α: 13.112
geometric series k: 0.8363
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8238
Shannon's H: 2.0792
Good's u: 0.476
Register
†Baioconodon middletoni 1
type
†Loxolophus priscus 1
†Loxolophus cf. hyattianus 1
†Ampliconus antoni 1
type
†Mithrandir gillianus 1
†Oxyacodon agapetillus 1
†Oxyacodon priscilla 1
†Alticonus gazini 1
†Ectoconus cavigellii 5
type
Periptychidae indet.2