Craterogale simus type locality (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Dawes County, Nebraska (42.7° N, 102.7° W: paleocoordinates 43.4° N, 98.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Runningwater Formation, Early/Lower Hemingfordian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• Gazin 1936: "The deposits at this locality are believed to be equivalent to the Snake Creek beds, but the horizon represented in this series is not definitely known. The age is apparently upper Miocene or possibly lower Pliocene."

•Baskin 2005: "from the early Hemingfordian Runningwater Formation of Nebraska"

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. L. Gazin. 1936. A new mustelid carnivore from the Neocene beds of northwestern Nebraska. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 26(5):199-207 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 160680: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 26.08.2014

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Carnivora - Mustelidae
Craterogale simus n. gen. n. sp.
Craterogale simus n. gen. n. sp. Gazin 1936 mustelid carnivore