Middle Of The Road Quarry (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Box Butte County, Nebraska (42.2° N, 103.1° W: paleocoordinates 42.9° N, 99.2° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Red Valley Member (Box Butte Formation), 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 17970: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993, edited by Jonathan Marcot

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Taxonomic list

• "36" specimens
Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equinae indet.1 Steinmann and Döderlein 1890 horse
Acritohippus cf. isonesus1 Cope 1889 horse
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Protolabis cf. saxeus Matthew 1924 camel
Paramiolabis aff. tenuis1 Matthew 1924 camel
 Carnivora - Canidae
Leptocyon leidyi2 Tedford et al. 2009 canine