Table 2. Diversity indices table.
Diversity index and evenness metric for each quarry and stratigraphic level. Values calculated by Dunn (2003) denoted with a superscript of (*). For stratigraphic level A, data was pooled from Dunn’s (2003) work and our 2017 collections.
| LATE PALEOCENE | PETM | EARLY EOCENE | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A.1* | A.2 | B* | C.1 | C.2 | D.1 | D.2 | D.3 | E.1 | E.2 | |
| Shannon diversity (quarry) | 2.06* | 2.03 | 2.24* | 1.26 | 1.26 | 1.33 | 1.94 | 1.54 | 1.93 | 1.53 |
| Shannon diversity (strat. level) |
2.70 | 2.24* | 1.30 | 2.08 | 1.72 | |||||
| Pielou’s J (quarry) | 0.73* | 0.79 | 0.67* | 0.51 | 0.55 | 0.96 | .84 | 0.86 | 0.78 | 0.55 |
| Pielou’s J (strat. level) |
0.80 | 0.67* | 0.51 | 0.82 | 0.61 | |||||