Prairie Dog Locality (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Nuckolls County, Nebraska (40.2° N, 98.1° W: paleocoordinates 40.2° N, 97.9° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Irvingtonian (1.8 - 0.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: H. T. Goodwin. 1995. Systematic revision of fossil prairie dogs with descriptions of two new species. University of Kansas Natural History Museum Miscellaneous Publications 86:1-38 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details

PaleoDB collection 20480: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
Cynomys spenceri Goodwin 1995 prairie dog
Cynomys niobrarius Hay 1921 prairie dog