Ginn Quarry (Miocene of the United States)

Also known as Gin Quarry

Where: Dawes County, Nebraska (42.8° N, 103.1° W: paleocoordinates 43.5° N, 99.2° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Hemingfordian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: T. Galusha. 1975. Stratigraphy of the Box Butte Formation, Nebraska. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 156(1) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]more details

PaleoDB collection 17917: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993, edited by Jonathan Marcot and Mark Uhen

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Taxonomic list

• not in a named formation and said to be post-Box Butte and pre-Olcott
Albright 1996 describes an F:AM Ginn Quarry specimen identified in the collection as "Miomustela" but refrains from identifying it
Aves
 Gruiformes - Gruidae
Balearicinae indet.1 Brasil 1913 crane
Mammalia
 Carnivora - Felidae
Felidae indet.4 Gray 1821 cat
 Carnivora - Canidae
Cynarctoides acridens9 Barbour and Cook 1914 bone-crushing dog
"Tomarctus optatus" = Protomarctus optatus Matthew 1924 bone-crushing dog
see also Wang et al. 1999
Osbornodon fricki8 Wang 1994 canid
 Perissodactyla - Chalicotheriidae
Tylocephalonyx skinneri2 Coombs 1979 chalicothere
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Teleoceras americanum6 Yatkola and Tanner 1979 rhinoceros
 Artiodactyla - Merycoidodontidae
"Brachycrus buwaldi" = Brachycrus laticeps5, Merychyus relictus7
"Brachycrus buwaldi" = Brachycrus laticeps5 Douglass 1900 oreodont
Merychyus relictus7 Matthew and Cook 1909 oreodont
also at "near Ginn Quarry"
 Artiodactyla - Antilocapridae
"Cosoryx (Paracosoryx) dawesensis n. sp." = Paracosoryx dawesensis3
"Cosoryx (Paracosoryx) dawesensis n. sp." = Paracosoryx dawesensis3 Frick 1937 pronghorn
 Artiodactyla - Palaeomerycidae
"Sinclairomeryx tedi n. sp." = Sinclairomeryx riparius3
"Sinclairomeryx tedi n. sp." = Sinclairomeryx riparius3 Matthew 1924 ruminant