Horse Creek (Banner County): Geringian, Nebraska
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Cynarctoides roii
(Macdonald 1963)
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1 mi E of state line, Horse Creek Basin, "20 ft above White Layer" in lower Arikaree Group, Banner County | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Merycoidodontidae
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Desmatochoerus wyomingensis
Schultz and Falkenbach 1954
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Schultz and Falkenbach 1954 | |||||||||
= Mesoreodon minor
Douglass 1903
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
Horse Creek area, Banner Co. | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Protoceratidae
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Protoceras skinneri
Patton and Taylor 1973
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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] |