Potter Quarry (Miocene of the United States)

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: C. B. Schultz and C. H. Falkenbach. 1947. Merychyinae, a subfamily of oreodonts. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 88(4):157-286 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details

PaleoDB collection 17982: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993, edited by Jonathan Marcot

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Taxonomic list

• in the "Sand Canyon drainage system"
Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Anthracotheriidae
Arretotherium fricki1 Macdonald and Schultz 1956 anthracothere
F:AM 132053
 Artiodactyla - Merycoidodontidae
Merychyus elegans Leidy 1858 oreodont
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Menoceras barbouri2 Wood 1964 rhinoceros