Found Quarry
Basic information
Sample name: Found 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: 8.1
Age basis: AEO
Geography comments: "in the NW 1/4, Sec. 1, T. 15 S., R. 38 W., Wallace County, a little less than 1 km east of the Lost Quarry locality on the opposite side of the local drainage" (but both are reported to be in the NW 1/4 of Sec. 1)
Environment
Lithology: not described
Methods
Life forms: carnivores, ungulates, frogs
Sample size: 19 specimens
Years: 1963
Museum: University of Kansas
Net or trap nights: 0
Basal area status: not applicable
Sampling comments: "discovered April 8, 1963 by W. Clemens and party"
Metadata
Sample no: 4626
Contributor no: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2025-01-02 03:17:49
Modified: 2025-01-02 03:17:49
Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
12 species
10 singletons
total count 19
geometric series index: 96.0
Fisher's α: 13.985
geometric series k: 0.8497
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8392
Shannon's H: 2.2052
Good's u: 0.4737
Register
| Anura indet. | 1 | |
| †Adelphailurus kansensis (saber-toothed cat) | 1 | |
| Osteoborus cyonoides = †Borophagus secundus (bone-crushing dog) | 1 | |
| Vulpes shermanensis = †Eucyon cf. davisi | 1 | |
| see also Harrison 1983 | ||
| †Bassariscus cf. ogallalae | 1 | |
| Gomphotheriidae indet. | 1 | |
| †Hemiauchenia vera (camel) | 6 | |
| Megatylopus sp. | 1 | |
| Camelidae indet. | 1 | |
| not the same as Hemiauchenia or Megatylopus | ||
| Antilocapridae indet. | 1 | |
| †Dinohippus interpolatus (horse) | 3 | |
| Aphelops sp. | 1 | |