Eli Ash Pit (Miocene of the United States)
Where: Cherry County, Nebraska (42.8° N, 100.8° W: paleocoordinates 43.3° N, 98.2° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Merritt Dam Member (Ash Hollow Formation), Clarendonian (12.5 - 9.4 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Primary reference: B. J. MacFadden. 1984. Systematics and phylogeny of Hipparion, Neohipparion, Nannippus, and Cormohipparion (Mammalia, Equidae) from the Miocene and Pliocene of the New World. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 179(1):1-195 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 18143: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 12.04.1997
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Taxonomic list
• said to in the Cap Rock by MacFadden 1984b, but Merritt Dam by Skinner and Johnson 1984
62 F:AM specimens: Skinner and Johnson 1984
62 F:AM specimens: Skinner and Johnson 1984
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Taxidiinae indet. Pocock 1920 badger | |
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Neohipparion affine Leidy 1869 hipparionine horse | |