Agate (2 Miles NE): Harrisonian, Nebraska

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Carnivora - Procyonidae
Bassariscus sp. Coues 1887
    = Procyonidae indet. Gray 1825
Alroy 2002
Upper Harrison Beds
Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae
Testudo arenivaga n. sp. Hay 1906
Hay 1906
synonym of Hesperotestudo osborniana
CM 1509 (holotype), carapacial fragments
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Nebraska County:Sioux
Coordinates: 42.4° North, 103.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.3° North, 98.8° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
*Period:Tertiary *Epoch:Miocene
Key time interval:Harrisonian
Age range of interval:24.80000 - 20.43000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Hemingford Formation:Marsland
Local section:PineR Local bed:14
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: = Upper Harrison beds
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:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:17735
Authorizer:J. Alroy, E. Vlachos Enterer:J. Alroy, E. Vlachos
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2002-05-15 00:00:00 Last modified:2018-02-05 13:52:06
Access level:the public Released:2002-05-15 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

1270. H. J. Cook and J. R. Macdonald. 1962. New Carnivora from the Miocene and Pliocene of Western Nebraska. Journal of Paleontology 36(3):560-567 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
64739 O. P. Hay. 1906. Descriptions of new species of turtles of the genus Testudo, collected from the Miocene by the Carnegie Museum; together with a description of the skull of Stylemys nebrascensis. Annals of Carnegie Museum 4:15-20 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]