Yegou
Basic information
Sample name: Yegou

Reference: J.-Y. Liu, Y.-Q. Zhang, Z.-Q. Chi, Y. Wang, J.-S. Yang, and S.-H. Zheng. 2022. A Late Pliocene Hipparion houfenense fauna from Yegou, Nihewan Basin and its biostratigraphic significance. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 60(4):278-323 [ER 4059]
Geography
Country: China

State: Hebei

Coordinate: 40° 9' 10" N, 115° 39' 19" E
Latlng basis: stated in text

Scale: quarry

Time interval: Late Pliocene

Geography comments: "at Yegou, north of Daodi Village... about 300 m north of the Laowogou section, the stratotype of" the Daodi Formation
"Taken as a whole, the age of the Yegou Hipparion houfenense fauna should be the Late Pliocene before 2.6 Ma"

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Environment
Lithology: claystone

Habitat comments: "from a big block of collapsed deposits, the lithology of which is dark brownish grey silty clay"

Methods
Life forms: carnivores, ungulates

Sample size: 59 specimens

Years: 2011

Museum: IVPP

Net or trap nights: 0

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: collection methods are not described
specimens are in the IVPP

Metadata
Sample no: 4468

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Modifier no: John Alroy

Created: 2024-11-14 11:41:48

Modified: 2024-11-15 10:03:25

Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
10 species
2 singletons
total count 59
geometric series index: 15.9
Fisher's α: 3.455
geometric series k: 0.7299
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.832
Shannon's H: 1.9951
Good's u: 0.9667
Register
†Nyctereutes tingi (raccoon dog)5
†Nyctereutes sinensis (raccoon dog)3
†Pachycrocuta pyrenaica (hyena)1
Homotherium sp. 2
Hipparion houfenense = †Plesiohipparion houfenense (horse)17
Rhinocerotidae indet.10
"Dicerorhinus sp.": compared to "Dicerorhinus mercki" (Stephanorhinus kirchbergensis) and "Dicerorhinus megarhinus" (Pliorhinus megarhinus)
†Gazella blacki (gazelle)7
†Axis shansius (deer)9
Muntiacus sp. 1
Paracamelus sp. 4