Hoye Canyon (UCMP V-95013)
Basic information
Sample name: Hoye Canyon (UCMP V-95013)

Sample aka: LACM 6993

Reference: T. S. Kelly. 2000. A new Hemphillian (late Miocene) mammalian fauna from Hoye Canyon, west central Nevada. Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 481:1-21 [ER 4173]
Geography
Country: United States

State: Nevada

County: Douglas

Coordinate: 38.73° N, -119.41° W
Latlng basis: estimated from map

Scale: quarry

Time interval: Late Miocene

Zone: Hemphillian

Section: Hoye Canyon

Unit number: 1

Unit order: below to above

Ma: 8.6

Age basis: AEO

Geography comments: "along the western flanks of the Wellington Hills from the vicinity of Hoye Canyon in the north to Risue Canyon in the south" (coordinate estimated from the map in Fig. 1 and Google Maps)
"from an unnamed formation"

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Environment
Lithology: sandstone

Habitat comments: "about 170 m above the contact with the Miocene andesite in a 1.6-m-thick sandstone bed that contains small mudstone clasts and thin lenses of conglomerate"

Methods
Life forms: rodents, ungulates, other small mammals

Sampling methods: quarry

Sample size: 27 specimens

Museum: LACM; UCMP

Net or trap nights: 0

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: there was "Quarrying at LACM 6993"

Metadata
Sample no: 4633

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Modifier no: John Alroy

Created: 2025-01-03 23:04:48

Modified: 2025-01-03 23:13:45

Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
6 species
2 singletons
total count 27
geometric series index: 11.5
Fisher's α: 2.392
geometric series k: 0.5987
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.6852
Shannon's H: 1.4354
Good's u: 0.9259
Register
†Pronotolagus nevadensis 5
type
†Spermophilus wellingtonensis 3
†Marmota korthi 4
type
†Parapliosaccomys oregonensis 13
†Hemiauchenia vera (camel)1
Dinohippus sp. 1