Prosynthetoceras Quarry: Early/Lower Barstovian, Nebraska
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Aphelops megalodus
(Cope 1873)
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Prothero 2005 | |||||||||
Teleoceras medicornutum
Osborn 1904
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Prothero 2005 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Chalicotheriidae
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Moropus sp.
Marsh 1877
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= Moropus merriami
Holland and Peterson 1913
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Coombs 2004 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Desmatippus integer
(Matthew 1924)
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Mammalia
- Tayassuidae
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Dyseohyus stirtoni
Woodburne 1969
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= Prosthennops xiphodonticus
Barbour 1925
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
recombined as Stirtonhyus xiphodonticus | ||||||||||
described by Woodburne 1969 | ||||||||||
Hesperhys vagrans
Douglass 1903
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Prothero 2015 | |||||||||
F:AM 143843 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Protoceratidae
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Prosynthetoceras siouxensis
(Frick 1937)
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= Lambdoceras siouxensis
Frick 1937
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
see also Patton and Taylor 1971 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Amphicyonidae
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Amphicyonidae indet.
Haeckel 1886
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= Amphicyon sp.
Lartet 1836
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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 | |||||||||
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: | 15.97000 - 13.60000 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
Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
Also known as: | Synthetoceras Quarry | ||
Database number: | 17985 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot | Enterer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot |
Modifier: | G. Varnham | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2022-04-27 08:19:00 |
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] | |
17216 | M. C. Coombs. 2004. Moropus merriami in the early Barstovian Lower Snake Creek fauna of Nebraska, with comments on biogeography of North American chalicotheres. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 285:191-208 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
1977 | R. M. Hunt, Jr. 1998. Amphicyonidae. 196-227 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
51726 | D. R. Prothero. 2005. The Evolution of North American Rhinoceroses. 1-218 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot] | |
61396 | D. R. Prothero. 2015. Evolution of the Early Miocene Hesperhyine Peccaries. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 67:235-255 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot] | |
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] |