Lost Quarry
Basic information
Sample name: Lost Quarry

Reference: D. K. Bennett. 1979. The fossil fauna from Lost and Found Quarries (Hemphillian: latest Miocene), Wallace County, Kansas. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas 79:1-24 [ER 4162]
Geography
Country: United States

State: Kansas

County: Wallace

Coordinate: 38.79° N, -101.5° W
Latlng basis: stated in text

Scale: outcrop

Formation: Ogallala

Time interval: Late Miocene

Zone: Hemphillian

Ma: 7.8

Age basis: AEO

Geography comments: "in the NW 1/4, Sec. 1, T. 15 S., R. 38 W."
"some of the collection may have been made slightly up or downstream"

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Environment
Lithology: not described

Methods
Life forms: carnivores, ungulates, snakes

Sample size: 51 specimens

Years: 1928, 1931, 1962, 1963

Museum: University of Kansas

Net or trap nights: 0

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: "A few scraps" were "collected in 1911" by H. T. Martin, who rediscovered the site in 1928; it was revisited "by KUVP collectors in 1931, 1962, and 1963"
a reworked specimen of Aelurodon haydeni (= Epicyon haydeni) is also present

Metadata
Sample no: 4621

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Modifier no: John Alroy

Created: 2024-12-19 01:06:25

Modified: 2024-12-19 01:09:43

Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
13 species
6 singletons
total count 51
geometric series index: 33.0
Fisher's α: 5.633
geometric series k: 0.7897
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7996
Shannon's H: 2.0038
Good's u: 0.8831
Register
Heterodontidae indet.1
†Pratifelis martini 1
type
†Plesiogulo marshalli 1
Osteoborus cyonoides = †Borophagus secundus (bone-crushing dog)3
Agriotherium sp. 1
Tayassuidae indet.1
"? Prosthennops sp.": a "peccary" assigned to Prosthennops only based on size
†Hemiauchenia vera (camel)4
Camelidae indet.2
not the same as Hemiauchenia
Pediomeryx sp. 1
"Yumaceras sp."
†Dinohippus interpolatus (horse)13
†Astrohippus ansae 3
Nannippus lenticulare = †Nannippus lenticularis (horse)17
Aphelops sp. 3