Horse Creek (Banner County): Geringian, Nebraska

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Cynarctoides roii (Macdonald 1963)
1 mi E of state line, Horse Creek Basin, "20 ft above White Layer" in lower Arikaree Group, Banner County
Mammalia - Merycoidodontidae
Desmatochoerus wyomingensis Schultz and Falkenbach 1954
Schultz and Falkenbach 1954
    = Mesoreodon minor Douglass 1903
Alroy 2002
Horse Creek area, Banner Co.
Mammalia - Protoceratidae
Protoceras skinneri Patton and Taylor 1973
Patton and Taylor 1973
"10 feet below the white layer"; "temporally equivalent to the Gering Formation"
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Nebraska County:Banner
Coordinates: 41.5° North, 103.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:42.4° North, 97.3° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Oligocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 4
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval:Geringian
Age range of interval:30.80000 - 26.30000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Early Arikareean
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:17522
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:B. Allen Research group:vertebrate
Created:1998-09-21 00:00:00 Last modified:2023-07-29 05:31:34
Access level:the public Released:1998-09-21 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

3558. X. Wang, R. H. Tedford, and B. E. Taylor. 1999. Phylogenetic systematics of the Borophaginae (Carnivora: Canidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 243:1-392 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
2740 T. H. Patton and B. E. Taylor. 1973. The Protoceratinae (Mammalia, Tylopoda, Protoceratidae) and the systematics of the Protoceratidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 150(4) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
3067 C. B. Schultz and C. H. Falkenbach. 1954. Desmatochoerinae, a new subfamily of oreodonts. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 105(2) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]