Below Boiling Spring Bridge: Miocene, Nebraska
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Teleoceras medicornutum
Osborn 1904
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Prothero 2005 | |||||||||
| "Boiling Spring Bridge" | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Merycoidodontidae
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Ustatochoerus medius
(Leidy 1858)
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= Merychyus medius
Leidy 1858
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
| recombined as Ustatochoerus medius | ||||||||||
| "1 1/2 mi. below Boiling Spring Bridge" | ||||||||||
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Ustatochoerus major
(Leidy 1858)
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= Merychyus major
Leidy 1858
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
| recombined as Ustatochoerus major | ||||||||||
| "1 1/2 mi. below Boiling Spring Bridge" | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Palaeomerycidae
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Cranioceras granti
Frick 1937
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Frick 1937 | |||||||||
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= Cranioceras unicornis
Matthew 1918
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
| "1 1/2 mi. below Boiling Spring Bridge" | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Nebraska | County: | Cherry |
| Coordinates: | 42.8° North, 100.8° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 43.3° North, 97.7° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5-6 | ||
| *Period: | Tertiary | ||
| Key time interval: | Miocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 23.03000 - 5.33300 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some genera |
| Taxonomic list comments:this is close to Ewert Quarry and Devil's Jump Off there is no indication that the following are from the same locality: Carpocyon robustus Wang et al. 1999: "First canyon above the Boiling Springs Bridge, south side of Niobrara River, marly zone, base of Ash Hollow Formation" Hunt_ursid barbouri Hunt 1998a: "Ogallala Formation, west of Boiling Spring Bridge" "Ustatochoerus profectus" Schultz and Falkenbach 1941: "E. of Boiling Spring Bridge" Longirostromeryx "merriami" Frick 1937: "Boiling Springs" | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 18049 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot | Enterer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2000-06-17 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-06-03 03:27:42 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2000-06-17 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 3063. | C. B. Schultz and C. H. Falkenbach. 1941. Ticholeptinae, a new subfamily of oreodonts. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 79(1):1-105 [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] | |
| 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] | |
| 51726 | D. R. Prothero. 2005. The Evolution of North American Rhinoceroses. 1-218 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot] |