Amebelodon Quarry No. 2 (Miocene of the United States)

Also known as Cambridge; UNSM loc. Fn-10

Where: Furnas County, Nebraska (40.3° N, 100.2° W: paleocoordinates 40.8° N, 97.2° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. H. Barbour and C. W. Hibbard. 1941. A shovel-tusked mastodon, Amebelodon fricki, from Kansas. Bulletin of the Nebraska State Museum 2(4):1-9 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 18029: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Amebelodon sp. Barbour 1927 gomphothere
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