Fence Line (Miocene of the United States)

Also known as UCMP V-3331

Where: Cherry County, Nebraska (42.8° N, 100.8° W: paleocoordinates 43.3° N, 98.2° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Burge Member (Valentine Formation), Clarendonian (13.6 - 10.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: S. D. Webb. 1969. The Burge and Minnechaduza Clarendonian Mammalian Faunas of North-Central Nebraska. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 78:1-191 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details

PaleoDB collection 18159: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.03.1995

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• originally described by Stirton and McGrew 1935
Mammalia
 Rodentia - Heteromyidae
"Mioheteromys agrarius" = Diprionomys agrarius2
"Mioheteromys agrarius" = Diprionomys agrarius2 Wood 1935 rodent
 Rodentia - Mylagaulidae
Mylagaulidae indet.1 Cope 1881 rodent
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Teleoceras sp. Hatcher 1894 rhinoceros
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Pseudhipparion retrusum Cope 1889 hipparionine horse
Equini indet.1 Quinn 1955 horse
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Procamelus grandis Gregory 1939 camel
 Artiodactyla - Moschidae
Blastomerycinae indet.1 Frick 1937 musk deer
 Artiodactyla - Antilocapridae
Cosoryx furcatus Leidy 1869 pronghorn
 Carnivora - Amphicyonidae
Ischyrocyon sp. Matthew and Gidley 1904 bear-dog
 Carnivora - Canidae
Aelurodon stirtoni1 Wang et al. 1999 bone-crushing dog