Agate (2 Miles NE): Harrisonian, Nebraska
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Procyonidae
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Bassariscus sp.
Coues 1887
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= Procyonidae indet.
Gray 1825
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
Upper Harrison Beds | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Testudinidae
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Testudo arenivaga n. sp.
Hay 1906
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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] |