Ten Mile Waterhole Creek
Basic information
Sample name: Ten Mile Waterhole Creek
Sample aka: Ten Mile Creek
Reference: S. R. May. 2019. The Lapara Creek Fauna: Early Clarendonian of south Texas, USA. Palaeontologia Electronica 22.1.15A:1-129 [ER 4065]
Geography
Country: United States
State: Texas
County: Live Oak
Coordinate: 28.34° N, -97.95° W
Coordinate basis: estimated from map
Formation: Goliad
Time interval: Middle Miocene
Zone: Cl1
Geography comments: "10 miles east of George West, Texas"
"Ten Mile Waterhole Creek and Bridge Ranch Local Faunas are from the lower Goliad Formation"
"the consistent nature of the very gentle south-southeast dip suggests a stratigraphic order from bottom to top of Ten Mile Waterhole Creek, Bridge Ranch, Farish Ranch and Buckner Ranch"
"Ten Mile Waterhole Creek and Bridge Ranch Local Faunas are from the lower Goliad Formation"
"the consistent nature of the very gentle south-southeast dip suggests a stratigraphic order from bottom to top of Ten Mile Waterhole Creek, Bridge Ranch, Farish Ranch and Buckner Ranch"
Environment
Lithology: not described
Taphonomic context: fluvial deposit
Habitat comments: "Local lithology is variable, although gray to white mudstone, muddy sandstone and carbonate nodule conglomerates are common"
"no significant differences were observed between the horses at Farish Ranch, Ten Mile Waterhole Creek and Buckner Ranch Site 1"
"no significant differences were observed between the horses at Farish Ranch, Ten Mile Waterhole Creek and Buckner Ranch Site 1"
Methods
Life forms: fishes,turtles,rodents,carnivores,ungulates
Sampling methods: screenwash
Sample size: 104 specimens
Sampled by: Glen Evans, Adolph Witte, Nolan McWhirter, William McAnulty, Joseph Gregory
Years: 1939-1941
Museum: The University of Texas at Austin, American Museum of Natural History, New York and the University of California Museum of Paleontology
Sampling comments: "Another sample was wet-screened because of its close association with bone-bearing conglomerate"
Metadata
Sample number: 4484
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: Nicholas Vine
Modifier no: Nicholas Vine
Created: 2024-11-16 05:30:57
Modified: 2024-11-19 02:13:23
Abundance distribution
22 species
6 singletons
total count 104
geometric series index: 40.4
Fisher's α: 8.527
geometric series k: 0.8596
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.9025
Shannon's H: 2.6835
Good's u: 0.9429
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