Douglass Quarry
Basic information
Sample name: Douglass Quarry

Sample aka: Crazy Mountains Basin Loc. 63

Reference: G. G. Simpson. 1937. The Fort Union of the Crazy Mountain Field, Montana, and its mammalian faunas. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 169:1-287 [ER 4101]
Geography
Country: United States

State: Montana


County: Sweetgrass


Coordinate: 46.19° N, -109.90° W
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Scale: quarry

Formation: Fort Union

Time interval: Middle Palaeocene

Zone: Tiffanian

Section: CMB

Unit number: 3

Unit order: below to above

Max Ma: 62.278

Min Ma: 59.237

Age basis: paleomag

Geography comments: NW1/4, sec. 18, T. 5 N., R. 15 E.
2850 "Feet above base of Fort Union No. 1"
Ti1 according to Krause and Maas (1990)
chron 26R according to Butler et al. (1987) (age assignment based on Ogg 2020)

Environment
Lithology: shale

Habitat comments: the lithology is not described, but "mammal localities in this area in general are "almost entirely on the rarer shale exposures... seldom as much as a hundred yards in diameter and generally much less"

Methods
Life forms: carnivores,primates,ungulates,other large mammals,other small mammals

Sampling methods: quarry

Sample size: 1565 specimens

Museum: Princeton University

Sampling comments: said to be a Princeton locality
the metadata for this sample are based on Simpson (1937), who did not report a faunal list, and the list is drawn from Krause and Maas (1990)

Metadata
Sample number: 4526

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Modifier no: John Alroy

Created: 2024-11-30 03:24:58

Modified: 2024-12-03 10:23:44

Abundance distribution
48 species
5 singletons
total count 1565
geometric series index: 64.1
Fisher's α: 9.367
geometric series k: 0.8804
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8815
Shannon's H: 2.7041
Good's u: 0.9968
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
Register
Ptilodus sp. 1192
Ptilodus sp. 219
Mesodma pygmaea3
Mimetodon sp.2
?
Neoplagiaulax hunteri24
Neoplagiaulax nelsoni1
Neoplagiaulax sp.15
said to be new
Anconodon cochranensis15
Anconodon lewisi29
Microcosmodon woodi3
Eucosmodontidae indet.4
apparently not the same
Peradectes cf. pauli = †Peradectes cf. elegans1
Acmeodon sp.10
Palaeoryctidae indet. 12
Palaeoryctidae indet. 22
Bisonalveus browni73
Pentacodontidae indet.18
said to be new
Paleotomus senior7
Propalaeosinopa diluculi = †Bessoecetor septentrionalis32
Myrmecoboides montanensis2
Prodiacodon concordiarcensis10
Prodiacodon furor4
Leptictidae indet.1
apparently not the same
Proteutheria indet.2
apparently not the same
Leptacodon munusculum5
Nannodectes intermedius114
Plesiadapis praecursor86
Ignacius sp.2
Elphidotarsius russelli8
Picrodus silberlingi1
Primates indet.3
apparently not the same
Elpidophorus elegans5
Bryanictis sp.1
"Protictis sp." said to be new: described by Krause and Gingerich (1983) as being close to Protictis (Bryanictis) microlestes
Simpsonictis sp.5
Dissacus sp.5
Litomylus dissentaneus16
Hyopsodontidae indet.13
said to be new
Ectocion collinus238
Phenacodus bisonensis59
Claenodon montanensis = †Arctocyon montanensis12
Claenodon sp.7
?
Colpoclaenus ? keeferi5
Chriacus ? orthogonius = †Thryptacodon ? orthogonius7
Chriacus pelvidens21
Chriacus sp.23
apparently not the same
Mimotricentes fremontensis47
Thryptacodon cf. demari = †Thryptacodon cf. orthogonius399
Titanoides sp.12
said to be Titanoides zeuxis by Simons 1960