Ogallala Beach (Miocene to of the United States)

Also known as UNSM Kh-111

Where: Keith County, Nebraska (41.2° N, 101.8° W: paleocoordinates 41.5° N, 99.8° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Clarendonian to Late/Upper Clarendonian (13.6 - 10.3 Ma)

• JA: late Clarendonian to early Hemphillian based on AEO results

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Reposited in the UNSM

Primary reference: M. R. Voorhies. 1990. Vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Ogallala Group in Nebraska. In T. C. Gustavson (ed.), Geologic Framework and Regional Hydrology: Upper Cenozoic Blackwater Draw and Ogallala Formations, Great Plains 115-151 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 18298: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 05.08.1992

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Gomphotheriidae indet. Hay 1922 gomphothere
 Carnivora - Felidae
cf. Nimravides sp. Kitts 1958 cat
 Carnivora - Canidae
Borophaginae indet. Simpson 1945 bone-crushing dog
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Pliohippus sp. Marsh 1874 horse
probably OK
Calippus "large" Matthew and Stirton 1930 horse
same new species as at Lemoyne
Neohipparion sp. Gidley 1903 hipparionine horse
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Teleoceras sp. Hatcher 1894 rhinoceros
same species as at Lemoyne? - if so not fossiger
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Megatylopus gigas Matthew and Cook 1909 camel
 Artiodactyla - Gelocidae
Gelocidae indet. Schlosser 1886 ruminant
 Artiodactyla - Antilocapridae
cf. Plioceros sp. Frick 1937 pronghorn