PBDB Collection

Kilpatrick Quarry: Clarendonian, Nebraska

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Reptilia - Gruiformes - Gruidae

	Megalornis pratensis (Meyer 1794)	Wetmore 1928
	recombined as Antigone canadensis pratensis
	"Quarry 7 in the Kilpatrick pasture": 1926 or 1927 A. Thomson collection
Reptilia - Gruiformes - Aramidae

	Aramus sp. Viellot 1816	Wetmore 1928
	1927 Thomson collection from "the Pliocene of the Upper Snake Creek beds on Olcott Hill": Thomson spent the 1927 field season collecting at Kilpatrick Quarry, see Skinner et al. 1977 p. 282
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae

	Rhynchotherium anguirvalis
	= Gomphotheriidae indet. Hay 1922	Alroy 2002

	Serridentinus nebrascensis Osborn 1924
	= Gomphotherium sp. Burmeister 1837	Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae

	Aelurodon taxoides Hatcher 1894	Wang et al. 1999
	"Quarry 7, Kilpatrick Pasture"

	Aelurodon sp. Leidy 1858
	= Epicyon saevus Leidy 1858	Baskin 1998
	compared to "A. mortifer"; confirmed by Wang et al. 1999

	Epicyon haydeni (Leidy 1858)	Wang et al. 1999

	Cynarctus crucidens Barbour and Cook 1914	Wang et al. 1999

	Leptocyon matthewi Tedford et al. 2009	Tedford et al. 2009
	"Kilpatrick Pasture Quarry 7" and "Kilpatrick Pasture Quarry b."
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae

	Pseudhipparion gratum (Leidy 1869)	Hulbert 1989
	pers. commun.

	Cormohipparion occidentale (Leidy 1856)
	= Hippotherium sp. Kaup 1832	Hulbert 1989
	pers. commun.

	Nannippus sp. (Matthew 1926)	Hulbert 1989
	pers. commun.: "A"

	Acritohippus isonesus (Cope 1889)	Mihlbachler et al. 2011
	Supplemental Table S1

	Protohippus supremus Leidy 1869	Hulbert 1989
	pers. commun.

	Pliohippus pernix Marsh 1874	Hulbert 1989
	pers. commun.
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae

	Teleoceras major Hatcher 1894	Prothero 2005
	"Kilpatrick Ranch"
Mammalia - Camelidae

	Megatylopus sp. (Matthew and Cook 1909)
	= Camelidae indet. Gray 1821	Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Moschidae

	Longirostromeryx serpentis n. sp. Frick 1937
	= Longirostromeryx wellsi Matthew 1904	Frick 1937
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae

	Eucastor cf. tortus (Leidy 1858)
	described by Stirton 1935
see common names

Geography

Country:	United States	State/province:	Nebraska	County:	Sioux
Coordinates:	42.4° North, 103.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	42.9° North, 101.2° West
Basis of coordinate:	based on political unit
Geographic resolution:	small collection

Time

Period:	Neogene	Epoch:	Miocene
10 m.y. bin:	Cenozoic 5-6
*Period:	Tertiary
Key time interval:	Clarendonian
Age range of interval:	12.50000 - 9.40000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields

Stratigraphy

Formation:	Snake Creek	Member:	Laucomer
Local section:	Snake	Local bed:	7
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
Taxonomic list comments:equids: Hulbert 1989 pers. commun.

Metadata

Also known as:	Kilpatrick Pasture Quarry 7
Database number:	18222
Authorizer:	J. Alroy, J. Marcot	Enterer:	J. Alroy, J. Marcot
Modifier:	J. Alroy	Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	1992-08-05 00:00:00	Last modified:	2007-08-16 23:47:41
Access level:	the public	Released:	1992-08-05 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]
1032		J. A. Baskin. 1998. Evolutionary trends in the late Miocene hyena-like dog Epicyon (Carnivora, Canidae). National Science Museum Monographs 14:191-214 [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]
1952		R. C. Hulbert, Jr. 1989. Phylogenetic Interrelationships and Evolution of North American Late Equidae. In D. R. Prothero and R. M. Schoch (eds.), The Evolution of Perissodactyls [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
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]
52058		R. H. Tedford, X. Wang, and B. E. Taylor. 2009. Phylogenetic Systematics of the North American Fossil Caninae (Carnivora: Canidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 325:1-218 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot/G. Lloyd]
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]
25104		A. Wetmore. 1928. Additional specimens of fossil birds from the Upper Tertiary deposits of Nebraska. American Museum Novitates 302:1-5 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]