Penny Creek (UNSM Wt-12): Clarendonian, Nebraska
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Gomphotheriidae
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Gomphotheriidae indet.
Hay 1922
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
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Carnivora indet.
Bowdich 1821
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Hypohippus cf. osborni
Gidley 1907
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Protohippus cf. perditus
(Leidy 1858)
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Pliohippus sp.
Marsh 1874
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may be OK as Turner lists perditus | ||||||||||
Calippus sp.
(Matthew and Stirton 1930)
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= Calippus regulus
Johnston 1937
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Voorhies et al. 1987 | |||||||||
Pseudhipparion sp.
Ameghino 1904
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= Pseudhipparion retrusum
Cope 1889
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
"Merychippus" cf. coloradense
(Osborn 1918)
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Teleoceras sp.
Hatcher 1894
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Aphelops sp.
Owen 1845
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Tapiridae
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Tapirus johnsoni
Schultz et al. 1975
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Schultz et al. 1975 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Camelidae
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? Protolabis sp.
Cope 1876
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Mammalia
- Merycoidodontidae
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Ustatochoerus cf. skinneri
Schultz and Falkenbach 1941
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= Merychyus cf. novomexicanus
Frick 1929
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
invalid subgroup of Ustatochoerus medius | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Tayassuidae
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Prosthennops sp.
Matthew and Gidley 1904
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= Tayassuinae indet.
Palmer 1897
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Protoceratidae
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Synthetoceras tricornatus
Stirton 1932
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Mammalia
- Antilocapridae
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Merycodus sp.
Leidy 1854
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= Merycodontinae indet.
Matthew 1904
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Palaeomerycidae
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Cranioceras sp.
Matthew 1918
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= Cranioceratini indet.
Frick 1937
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Castoridae
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Eucastor sp.
Allen 1877
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Heteromyidae
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Heteromyidae indet.
Gray 1868
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Mylagaulidae
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Mylagaulus cf. monodon
Cope 1881
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= Mylagaulidae indet.
Cope 1881
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Korth 2000 | |||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Nebraska | County: | Webster |
Coordinates: | 40.1° North, 98.5° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 40.5° North, 95.9° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
*Period: | Tertiary | ||
Key time interval: | Clarendonian | ||
Age range of interval: | 13.60000 - 10.30000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Valentine |
Lithology and environment
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Museum repositories: | UNSM |
Metadata
Database number: | 18315 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2000-05-19 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2007-08-25 19:24:16 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2000-05-19 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
3475. | M. A. Turner. 1972. A faunal assemblage from the Lower Ash Hollow Formation (Neogene) of southern Nebraska. M. S. thesis University of Nebraska 1-88 [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] | |
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] | |
3078 | C. B. Schultz, L. D. Martin, and R. G. Corner. 1975. Middle and late Cenozoic tapirs from Nebraska. Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum 10(1):1-21 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
3519 | M. R. Voorhies, R. G. Corner, and J. L. Fitzgibbon. 1987. Calippus regulus (Mammalia: Equidae) in the Penny Creek Local Fauna (Clarendonian), Webster County, Nebraska. Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences 15:75-82 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] |