WaKeeney (KU Loc. 29)
Basic information
Sample name: WaKeeney (KU Loc. 29)

Reference: R. L. Wilson. 1968. Systematics and faunal analysis of a Lower Pliocene vertebrate assemblage from Trego County, Kansas. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 22(7):75-126 [ER 4176]
Geography
Country: United States

State: Kansas

County: Trego

Coordinate: 39.09° N, -99.76° W
Latlng basis: stated in text

Scale: quarry

Time interval: Late Miocene

Zone: Clarendonian

Section: WaKeeney

Unit number: 1

Unit order: below to above

Ma: 11.2

Age basis: AEO

Geography comments: "northwest of Ogallah... on the Lowell Hillman Ranch... 2450 feet south and 10 feet east of the NE corner Sec. 21, R22W, T11S. Elevation is 2255 feet"
"either the lower portion of the Ash Hollow Member or the upper portion of the Valentine Member of the Ogallala Formation" (now ranked as formations within the Ogallala Group)
underlies UM-K6-59

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Environment
Lithology: siliciclastic (mixed)

Taphonomic context: overbank deposit

Habitat comments: "a flood-plain deposit typified by a rather heterogeneous clastic lithology alternating from pebble to clay"

Methods
Life forms: rodents, ungulates

Sample size: 15 specimens

Museum: University of Kansas; University of Michigan

Net or trap nights: 0

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: the general area was worked episodically from "Around 1941" through 1966

Metadata
Sample no: 4638

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2025-01-04 10:54:30

Modified: 2025-01-04 10:54:30

Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
8 species
4 singletons
total count 15
geometric series index: 26.5
Fisher's α: 6.966
geometric series k: 0.8203
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8238
Shannon's H: 1.9338
Good's u: 0.7511
Register
Epigaulus minor = †Ceratogaulus minor 1
†Eucastor phillisi 1
Camelidae indet.1
"? Procamelus"
†Calippus martini (horse)4
Hulbert pers. commun.: "Astrohippus"
†Neohipparion cf. affine (horse)2
Cormohipparion sp. 3
"Neohipparion cf. occidentale"
Nannippus sp. 2
"Hipparion cf. lenticularis"
Pseudhipparion sp. 1
"cf. Griphippus"