Esther Canyon: Hemingfordian, Nebraska

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Tomarctus optatus Matthew 1924
    = Protomarctus cf. optatus Matthew 1924
Alroy 2002
probably OK based on Wang et al. 1999
Mammalia - Antilocapridae
Merycodontinae indet. (Matthew 1904)
Mammalia - Palaeomerycidae
Sinclairomeryx cf. tedi Frick 1937
synonym of Sinclairomeryx riparius
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Nebraska County:Dawes
Coordinates: 42.8° North, 103.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.5° North, 99.2° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Burdigalian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval:Hemingfordian
Age range of interval:20.43000 - 15.97000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Box Butte Member:Red Valley
Local section:PineR Local bed:17
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Taxonomic list comments:sec 10 T30N R48W
does not include either a specimen of Merychyus from the same coordinate from "beds that underlie the main body" of the mbr. or a specimen of "Parahippus cf. vellicans" from the mbr. but from 1 mile due west of this locality
Metadata
Database number:17907
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1995-03-26 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:42
Access level:the public Released:1995-03-26 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

1583. T. Galusha. 1975. Stratigraphy of the Box Butte Formation, Nebraska. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 156(1) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]