Bartlett High: Orellan, Nebraska

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Carnivora - Amphicyonidae
Daphoenus hartshornianus (Cope 1873)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Hesperocyon gregarius (Cope 1873)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Mesohippus bairdi (Leidy 1850)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla
Rhinocerotoidea indet. Gray 1821
"larger rhino", a hyracodontid or rhinocerotid
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Hyracodontidae
Hyracodon nebraskensis (Leidy 1850)
Mammalia - Merycoidodontidae
Miniochoerus gracilis (Leidy 1851)
Merycoidodon sp. Leidy 1848
Mammalia - Camelidae
Poebrotherium wilsoni Leidy 1847
Mammalia - Hypisodontidae
Hypisodus minimus (Cope 1873)
Mammalia - Leptomerycidae
Leptomeryx evansi Leidy 1853
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Palaeolagus haydeni Leidy 1856
Mammalia - Rodentia - Ischyromyidae
Ischyromys typus Leidy 1856
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Nebraska County:Dawes
Coordinates: 42.8° North, 103.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:44.0° North, 95.0° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Oligocene
Stage:Rupelian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 4
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval:Orellan
Age range of interval:33.90000 - 31.80000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Brule Member:Orella
Local section:PineR Local bed:4
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection size:41 specimens
Taxonomic list comments:in a reversed polarity zone above the Orella B normal zone and 18.3 m below the top of the member, i.e., in Orella C
includes CSC-73 Bartlett High CSC-77 Bartlett Dike Valley (highest level) CSC-86 Anderson High
Bartlett Ranch, level not indicated: Paratylopus labiatus Prothero 1996d
NISP 41, excluding indeterminate rhino
Metadata
Database number:17062
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-02-18 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:41
Access level:the public Released:1993-02-18 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

1757. E. P. Gustafson. 1986. Preliminary biostratigraphy of the White River Group (Oligocene, Chadron and Brule formations) in the vicinity of Chadron, Nebraska. Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences 14:7-20 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]