West Coon Creek (Miocene of the United States)

Also known as UCMP V-6252

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: Cap Rock Member (Ash Hollow 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 18456: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 05.08.1992

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Theriamorpha - Erinaceidae
Erinaceidae indet. Fischer von Waldheim 1817 hedgehog
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equini indet. Quinn 1955 horse
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Procamelus grandis Gregory 1939 camel
 Artiodactyla - Antilocapridae
Cosoryx furcatus Leidy 1869 pronghorn
 Artiodactyla - Merycoidodontidae
Merychyus sp. Leidy 1858 oreodont