Boulder Quarry: Early/Lower Barstovian, Nebraska
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Cynarctoides acridens
(Barbour and Cook 1914)
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Paracynarctus sinclairi
Wang et al. 1999
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Tomarctus brevirostris
Cope 1873
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Tomarctus hippophaga
(Matthew and Cook 1909)
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Amphicyonidae
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Pliocyon sp.
Matthew 1918
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Hunt 1998 | |||||||||
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Amphicyon ingens
Matthew 1924
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Schiebout 1997 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Merychippus coloradense
(Osborn 1918)
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Evander 2008 | |||||||||
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Neohipparion sp.
Gidley 1903
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Mihlbachler et al. 2011 | |||||||||
| Supplemental Table S1 | ||||||||||
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Scaphohippus intermontanus
(Merriam 1915)
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Mihlbachler et al. 2011 | |||||||||
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Hypohippus sp.
(Leidy 1858)
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Mihlbachler et al. 2011 | |||||||||
| original and current combination Anchitherium (Hypohippus) | ||||||||||
| Supplemental Table S1 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Aphelops megalodus
(Cope 1873)
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Prothero 2005 | |||||||||
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Teleoceras medicornutum
Osborn 1904
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Prothero 2005 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Falconidae
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Pediohierax ramenta
(Wetmore 1936)
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Becker 1987 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Nebraska | County: | Sioux |
| Coordinates: | 42.4° North, 103.8° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 43.0° North, 100.6° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 | ||
| *Period: | Tertiary | ||
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Barstovian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 16.30000 - 12.50000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Olcott |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some genera |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:subcycle unknown: Skinner et al. 1977 | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 17880 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot | Enterer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot |
| Modifier: | G. Varnham | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2000-05-19 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2022-04-27 08:15:40 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2000-05-19 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:
| 25721 | J. J. Becker. 1987. Revision of "Falco" ramenta Wetmore and the Neogene evolution of the Falconidae. Auk 104(2):270-276 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
| 55149 | R. L. Evander. 2008. Craniometry of the Equidae part I: two-dimensional shape analysis. 7(1):1-13 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot] | |
| 1977 | R. M. Hunt, Jr. 1998. Amphicyonidae. 196-227 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
| 61275 | M. C. Mihlbachler, F. Rivals, N. Solounias and G. M. Semprebon. 2011. Dietary Change and Evolution of Horses in North America. Science 331:1178-1181 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot] | |
| 51726 | D. R. Prothero. 2005. The Evolution of North American Rhinoceroses. 1-218 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot] | |
| 3030 | J. A. Schiebout. 1997. Paleofaunal survey, collecting, processing, and documentation at two locations on Fort Polk, Louisiana. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth District; Contract No. DACW63-90-D-0008, Delivery Order 13 [No sponsoring agency report number given] 1-92 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |