Lucht Quarry: Clarendonian, Nebraska

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
informal Hunt ursid barbouri
Hunt 1998
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Protohippus supremus Leidy 1869
Hulbert 1989
pers. commun.
Pliohippus pernix Marsh 1874
Mihlbachler et al. 2011
Supplemental Table S1
Calippus cf. martini Hesse 1936
Hulbert 1989
pers. commun.
Calippus regulus Johnston 1937
Hulbert 1988
Cormohipparion occidentale (Leidy 1856)
Mihlbachler et al. 2011
Supplemental Table S1
Pseudhipparion retrusum (Cope 1889)
Webb and Hulbert 1986
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Teleoceras medicornutum Osborn 1904
Prothero 2005
Aphelops megalodus (Cope 1873)
Prothero 2005
Mammalia - Carnivora - Amphicyonidae
Pseudocyon sp. Lartet 1851
Hunt 1998
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Aelurodon ferox Leidy 1858
Wang et al. 1999
Cynarctus voorhiesi n. sp. Wang et al. 1999
Wang et al. 1999
Paratomarctus euthos (McGrew 1935)
Wang et al. 1999
Carpocyon webbi Wang et al. 1999
Wang et al. 1999
Leptocyon vafer (Leidy 1858)
Tedford et al. 2009
Mammalia - Rodentia - Mylagaulidae
Ceratogaulus cf. rhinocerus Matthew 1902
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Prodipoides burgensis n. sp. (Korth 2002)
Korth 2008
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Nebraska County:Brown
Coordinates: 42.7° North, 100.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.1° North, 97.4° 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:Valentine Member:Burge
Local section:ValAH Local bed:4
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Taxonomic list comments:736 F:AM specimens: Skinner and Johnson 1984
may include Cosoryx furcatus Frick 1937 from "Above Devil's Gulch, talus slope"
Metadata
Database number:18242
Authorizer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot Enterer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1992-08-05 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:42
Access level:the public Released:1993-02-18 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

2143. W. W. Korth. 2000. Review of Miocene (Hemingfordian to Clarendonian) mylagaulid rodents (Mammalia) from Nebraska. Annals of Carnegie Museum 69(4):227-280 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]

Secondary references:

1949 R. C. Hulbert, Jr. 1988. Calippus and Protohippus (Mammalia, Perissodactyla, Equidae) from the Miocene (Barstovian-early Hemphillian) of the Gulf Coastal Plain. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 32(3):221-340 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/R. Hulbert]
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]
1976 R. M. Hunt, Jr. 1998. Ursidae. In C. M. Janis, K. M. Scott, and L. L. Jacobs (eds.), Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America 1:174-195 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
1977 R. M. Hunt, Jr. 1998. Amphicyonidae. 196-227 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
31435 W. W. Korth. 2008. Cranial morphology, systematics and succession of beavers from the middle Miocene Valentine Formation of Nebraska, USA. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 53(2):169-182 [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]
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]
6227 S. D. Webb and R. C. Hulbert, Jr. 1986. Systematics and evolution of Pseudhipparion (Mammalia, Equidae) from the late Neogene of the Gulf Coastal Plain and the Great Plains. Contributions to Geology, the University of Wyoming, Special Paper 3:237-272 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]