Long Quarry: Hemingfordian, Nebraska
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Amphicyonidae
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Pliocyon sp.
Matthew 1918
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Hunt 1998 | |||||||||
Amphicyon sp.
Lartet 1836
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Hunt 1998 | |||||||||
Cynelos sp.
Jourdan 1862
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Hunt 1998 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Cynarctoides acridens
(Barbour and Cook 1914)
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Wang et al. 1999 | |||||||||
Protomarctus optatus
(Matthew 1924)
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Wang et al. 1999 | |||||||||
Osbornodon fricki
Wang 1994
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Wang 1994 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Archaeohippus penultimus
Matthew 1924
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Acritohippus tertius
(Osborn 1918)
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Mihlbachler et al. 2011 | |||||||||
original and current combination Merychippus isonesus tertius | ||||||||||
Supplemental Table S1 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Chalicotheriidae
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Tylocephalonyx skinneri
Coombs 1979
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Coombs 1979 | |||||||||
no chalicotheres mentioned by Skinner et al. | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Teleoceras americanum
(Yatkola and Tanner 1979)
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Prothero 2005 | |||||||||
Aphelops megalodus
(Cope 1873)
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Prothero 2005 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Merycoidodontidae
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Brachycrus wilsoni
Schultz and Falkenbach 1940
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synonym of Brachycrus laticeps | ||||||||||
includes type of "Brachycrus wilsoni longensis": see Schultz and Falkenbach 1940 | ||||||||||
Merychyus relictus
(Matthew and Cook 1909)
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includes type of "Merychyus relictus taylori": see Schultz and Falkenbach 1947 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Antilocapridae
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Merycodus sabulonis
(Matthew and Cook 1909)
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recombined as Cosoryx (Paracosoryx) sabulonis | ||||||||||
Cosoryx wilsoni n. sp.
Frick 1937
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Skinner and Taylor 1967 | |||||||||
original and current combination Cosoryx (Paracosoryx) wilsoni | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Palaeomerycidae
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Dromomeryx scotti
Frick 1937
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Frick 1937 | |||||||||
synonym of Subdromomeryx antilopinus | ||||||||||
see also Stirton 1944 | ||||||||||
Bouromeryx milleri
(Frick 1937)
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Galusha 1975 | |||||||||
= Bouromeryx americanus
Douglass 1899
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Liter and Prothero 2003 | |||||||||
Sinclairomeryx riparius
(Matthew 1924)
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Frick 1937 | |||||||||
see also Stirton 1944 | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Nebraska | County: | Sioux |
Coordinates: | 42.4° North, 103.8° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 43.1° North, 99.9° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
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: | Sheep Creek | Member: | lower |
Local section: | Snake | Local bed: | 1 |
Local order: | bottom to top |
Lithology and environment
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 17961 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot | Enterer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot |
Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2006-09-13 00:27:33 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
3175. | M. F. Skinner, S. M. Skinner, and R. J. Gooris. 1977. Stratigraphy and biostratigraphy of late Cenozoic deposits in central Sioux County, western Nebraska. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 158(5):263-370 [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] | |
1275 | M. C. Coombs. 1979. Tylocephalonyx, a new genus of North American dome-skulled chalicotheres (Mammalia, Perissodactyla). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 164(1):1-64 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] | |
6222 | C. Frick. 1937. Horned ruminants of North America. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 69:1-669 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] | |
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] | |
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] | |
3176 | M. F. Skinner and B. E. Taylor. 1967. A revision of the geology and paleontology of the Bijou Hills, South Dakota. American Museum Novitates 2300:1-53 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
6226 | X. Wang. 1994. Phylogenetic systematics of the Hesperocyoninae (Carnivora: Canidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 221:1-207 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
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] |