Red Light (TMM 40664)
Basic information
Sample name: Red Light (TMM 40664)
Reference: W. A. Akersten. 1970. Red Light local fauna (Blancan) of the Love Formation, southeastern Hudspeth County, Texas. Bulletin of the Texas Memorial Museum 20:1-53 [ER 4185]
Geography
Country: United States
State: Texas
County: Hudspeth
Coordinate: 30.88° N, -105.28° W
Coordinate basis: estimated from map
Scale: outcrop
Formation: Love
Time interval: Late Pliocene
Zone: Blancan
Ma: 3.2
Age basis: AEO
Geography comments: "on the John D. Bramblett Ranch, southeastern Hudspeth County" (coordinate estimate from Fig. 2 using Google Maps)
"a continuous exposure of a thick section... Measured section RL-1 is at this locality"
"a continuous exposure of a thick section... Measured section RL-1 is at this locality"
Environment
Lithology: siliciclastic (mixed)
Taphonomic context: fluvial deposit
Habitat comments: "mostly interbedded fluvial silt, sand, and gravel. Much of the gravel and some of the sand is indurated. In the northeast part of TMM 40664 these fluvial sediments are interbedded with reddish silty clay"
Methods
Life forms: carnivores,rodents,ungulates,other large mammals
Sample size: 59 specimens
Museum: Texas Memorial Museum
Sampling comments: fishes, frogs, turtles, lizards, snakes, and birds are present somewhere in the Red Light field area
Metadata
Sample number: 4649
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Modifier no: John Alroy
Created: 2025-01-09 09:56:25
Modified: 2025-01-09 10:07:26
Abundance distribution
16 species
4 singletons
total count 59
geometric series index: 30.2
Fisher's α: 7.220
geometric series k: 0.8473
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8951
Shannon's H: 2.4966
Good's u: 0.9339
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Register
| Paramylodon sp. | 2 | |
| †Glyptotherium texanum | 2 | |
| Cratogeomys sp. | 1 | |
| †Canis lepophagus | 4 | |
| Borophagus sp. | 1 | |
| Homotherium sp. | 1 | |
| "Ischyrosmilus sp.": compared to "Ischryosmilus johnstoni" (= Homotherium) | ||
| Felidae indet. | 6 | |
| Werdelin (1985): either lacustris or rexroadensis, which are in different genera; "Felis cf. rexroadensis" | ||
| Mammutidae indet. | 4 | |
| "mastodont": plus "numerous enamel and ivory fragments" | ||
| †Platygonus bicalcaratus | 3 | |
| Hemiauchenia sp. | 4 | |
| "Tanupolama sp.": small | ||
| Tanupolama blancoensis = †Hemiauchenia blancoensis | 2 | |
| "long-limbed" | ||
| †Blancocamelus meadei | 1 | |
| Dalquest (1975): "undescribed long-limbed camel" | ||
| Camelops sp. | 3 | |
| Equus aff. scotti = †Equus aff. excelsus | 9 | |
| †Equus (Plesippus) cf. simplicidens | 12 | |
| Equus cumminsi = †Equus cumminsii | 4 | |