Farish Ranch
Basic information
Sample name: Farish Ranch
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: America
State: Texas
County: Bee
Coordinate: 28.50° N, -97.68° W
Coordinate basis: estimated from map
Formation: Goliad
Time interval: Middle Miocene
Zone: CL2
Geography comments: "This site was interpreted by the Survey to be from the middle member of the Goliad Formation"
"Farish and Buckner Ranch localities are located higher in the 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"
"Farish and Buckner Ranch localities are located higher in the 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: siliciclastic (mixed)
Taphonomic context: fluvial deposit
Habitat comments: "Local lithology is variable, although gray to white mudstone, muddy sandstone and carbonate nodule conglomerates are common"
"fossils occurred in “a gravel and sandstone and below this is a bentonitic clay about five feet in thickness with sandstone bedrock”
"fossils from the Farish Ranch sites were much better preserved than those from Buckner Ranch"
"The fossils were in sand lenses interbedded with clay ball conglomerates, in a channel fill which cuts deeply into a resistant reddish brown sandstone"
"fossils occurred in “a gravel and sandstone and below this is a bentonitic clay about five feet in thickness with sandstone bedrock”
"fossils from the Farish Ranch sites were much better preserved than those from Buckner Ranch"
"The fossils were in sand lenses interbedded with clay ball conglomerates, in a channel fill which cuts deeply into a resistant reddish brown sandstone"
Methods
Life forms: fishes,turtles,rodents,carnivores,ungulates,birds,other small mammals,other reptiles
Sampling methods: screenwash
Sample size: 338 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"
"Fifteen workers spent about four months collecting specimens from the Farish Ranch sites, yielding a reported 23 rhinoceros skulls and a total of 489 jacketed specimens (Survey Final Report, 1941)"
"Fifteen workers spent about four months collecting specimens from the Farish Ranch sites, yielding a reported 23 rhinoceros skulls and a total of 489 jacketed specimens (Survey Final Report, 1941)"
Metadata
Sample number: 4499
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: Nicholas Vine
Modifier no: Nicholas Vine
Created: 2024-11-19 02:19:04
Modified: 2024-11-20 23:02:23
Abundance distribution
37 species
8 singletons
total count 338
geometric series index: 59.8
Fisher's α: 10.589
geometric series k: 0.8778
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8643
Shannon's H: 2.7225
Good's u: 0.9764
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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