Whistle Creek (Upper) ( of the United States)
Where: Sioux County, Nebraska (42.4° N, 103.8° W: paleocoordinates 43.3° N, 98.8° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Marsland Formation (Hemingford Group), Harrisonian (24.8 - 18.5 Ma)
• = Upper Harrison beds
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: O. A. Peterson. 1910. Description of new carnivores from the Miocene of western Nebraska. Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum 4(5):205-278 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 17858: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.03.1995
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• locality apparently not relocated by Hunt and position in the Upper Harrison not known
"Tephrocyon temerarius" is Protomarctus optatus and "possibly pertains to a later Miocene or Pliocene deposit": Wang et al. 1999
"Tephrocyon temerarius" is Protomarctus optatus and "possibly pertains to a later Miocene or Pliocene deposit": Wang et al. 1999
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"Oxydactylus longirostris n. sp." = Tanymykter longirostris
"Oxydactylus longirostris n. sp." = Tanymykter longirostris Peterson 1911 camel "Upper Harrison beds... Whistle Creek, Sioux County"
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"Borocyon robustum n. sp." = Daphoenodon (Borocyon) robustum
"Borocyon robustum n. sp." = Daphoenodon (Borocyon) robustum Peterson 1910 bear-dog | |