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
Coordinate 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"
"from an unnamed formation"
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
Sampling comments: there was "Quarrying at LACM 6993"
Metadata
Sample number: 4633
Contributor: 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
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
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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