Verdigre Quarry: Barstovian, Nebraska
collected by M. Voorhies
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri
- Sciaenidae
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Sciaenidae indet.
(Cuvier 1828)
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Voorhies 1971 | |||||||||
original and current combination Sciaenoidei | ||||||||||
"drum" | ||||||||||
Actinopteri
- Siluriformes
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Siluriformes indet.
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Voorhies 1971 | |||||||||
"catfish" | ||||||||||
Actinopteri
- Lepisosteiformes
- Lepisosteidae
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Lepisosteidae indet.
Cuvier 1825
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Voorhies 1971 | |||||||||
"gar" | ||||||||||
Actinopteri
- Amiiformes
- Amiidae
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Amia sp.
Linnaeus 1766
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Voorhies 1971 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Gomphotheriidae
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Gomphotherium sp.
Burmeister 1837
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Mammalia
- Soricidae
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? Limnoecus sp.
Stirton 1930
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Mammalia
- Talpidae
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Talpidae indet.
(Fischer de Waldheim 1817)
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Mammalia
- Plesiosoricidae
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Meterix sp.
Hall 1929
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= Plesiosorex sp.
Pomel 1848
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Erinaceidae
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Metechinus sp.
Matthew 1929
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Rich 1981 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Amphicyonidae
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Pliocyon sp.
Matthew 1918
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= Ischyrocyon sp.
Matthew and Gidley 1904
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Hunt 1998 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Procyonidae
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Bassariscus cf. parvus
Hall 1927
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= Procyonidae indet.
Gray 1825
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
which may = Probassariscus antiquus | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Mustelidae
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Brachypsalis sp.
Cope 1890
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= Mustelidae indet.
Fischer 1817
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
Mustelidae indet.
Fischer 1817
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Leptarctus sp.
Leidy 1856
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Ursidae
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Hemicyon sp.
Lartet 1851
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= Plithocyon sp.
Ginsburg 1955
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Hunt 1998 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Tomarctus sp.
Cope 1873
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= Borophaginae indet.
Simpson 1945
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
Aelurodon cf. platyrhinus
Barbour and Cook 1917
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= Aelurodon cf. ferox
Leidy 1858
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
Cynarctus sp.
Matthew 1902
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cf. Leptocyon vafer
(Leidy 1858)
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= Leptocyon vafer
Leidy 1858
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Tedford et al. 2009 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Felidae
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Pseudaelurus sp.
Leidy 1858
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Mammalia
- Merycoidodontidae
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Ustatochoerus medius
(Leidy 1858)
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Mammalia
- Tayassuidae
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Prosthennops sp.
Matthew and Gidley 1904
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= Prosthennops xiphodonticus
Barbour 1925
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Wright 1983 | |||||||||
recombined as Stirtonhyus xiphodonticus | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Palaeomerycidae
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Cranioceras skinneri
Frick 1937
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recombined as Procranioceras skinneri | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Moschidae
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Blastomeryx sp.
Cope 1877
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= Blastomerycinae indet.
Frick 1937
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Antilocapridae
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Merycodus furcatus
(Leidy 1869)
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original and current combination Cosoryx furcatus | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Camelidae indet.
Gray 1821
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"? Pliauchenia" and "? Megatylopus" | ||||||||||
Procamelus cf. grandis
Gregory 1939
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Megahippus sp.
McGrew 1938
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Hypohippus affinis
(Leidy 1858)
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(1 measurement) | ||||||||||
Pseudhipparion cf. retrusum
(Cope 1889)
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Cormohipparion sphenodus
(Cope 1889)
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= Hippotherium sp.
Kaup 1832
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MacFadden 1984 | |||||||||
Calippus cf. placidus
(Leidy 1869)
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Calippus (Grammohippus) sp.
Hulbert 1988
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new species of Hulbert | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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cf. Teleoceras sp.
Hatcher 1894
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Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Hypolagus cf. fontinalis
Dawson 1958
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Zapodidae
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Megasminthus tiheni
Klingener 1966
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Peromyscus sp.
Gloger 1841
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Mylagaulidae
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Mylagaulus sp.
Cope 1878
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= Mylagaulidae indet.
Cope 1881
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Castoridae
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Eucastor sp.
Allen 1877
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= Eucastor tortus
Leidy 1858
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Korth 2008 | |||||||||
Prodipoides burgensis
(Korth 2002)
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Korth 2008 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Geomyidae
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Geomyidae indet.
Bonaparte 1845
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Heteromyidae
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Heteromyidae indet.
Gray 1868
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Sciuridae
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Sciuridae indet.
Gray 1821
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Trionychidae
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Trionyx sp.
Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1809
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Voorhies 1971 | |||||||||
= Trionychidae indet.
Gray 1825
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Alroy 2007 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Crocodylia
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Crocodylia indet.
(Owen 1842)
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Voorhies 1971 | 3 specimens | ||||||||
"crocodilian teeth" | ||||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Batoidea
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Batoidea indet.
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Voorhies 1971 | |||||||||
"ray" | ||||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Selachii
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Selachii indet.
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Voorhies 1971 | |||||||||
"shark" | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Nebraska | County: | Knox |
Coordinates: | 42.6° North, 98.0° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 43.1° North, 94.7° 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: | Barstovian | ||
Age range of interval: | 16.30000 - 12.50000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Geological group: | Ogallala | Formation: | Valentine | Member: | Devil's Gulch |
Regional section: | ValAH | Regional bed: | 3 | ||
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: assignment to the Devil's Gulch Member is based on Voorhies 1971 |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | conglomeratic sandstone |
Lithology description: "a local lens of conglomeratic sand" (Voorhies 1971) | |
Environment: | crevasse splay |
Geology comments: "a depression on a broad floodplain adjacent to a large river which flooded to form the bonebed" (Voorhies 1971) |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taphonomic analysis |
Museum repositories: | UNSM |
Collectors: | M. Voorhies |
Metadata
Also known as: | Crocodilian Locality C | ||
Database number: | 18443 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot | Enterer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 1992-08-05 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2020-01-23 17:17:55 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1992-08-05 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
5714. | ETE 1470 | M. R. Voorhies. 1969. Taphonomy and population dynamics of an Early Pliocene vertebrate fauna, Know County, Nebraska. University of Wyoming Contributions to Geology Special Paper 1:1-69 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
19636 | J. Alroy. 2007. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil vertebrates and so forth. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
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] | |
6244 | B. J. MacFadden. 1984. Systematics and phylogeny of Hipparion, Neohipparion, Nannippus, and Cormohipparion (Mammalia, Equidae) from the Miocene and Pliocene of the New World. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 179(1):1-195 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] | |
2897 | T. H. V. Rich. 1981. Origin and History of the Erinaceinae and Brachyericinae (Mammalia, Insectivora) in North America. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 171(1):1-116 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Mannion] | |
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] | |
24880 | M. R. Voorhies. 1971. Paleoclimatic significance of crocodilian remains from the Ogallala Group (upper Tertiary) in northeastern Nebraska. Journal of Paleontology 45(1):119-121 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
3773 | D. B. Wright. 1983. Later Miocene Tayassuidae (Artiodactyla, Mammalia) of North America. University of Nebraska, M. S. thesis 1-350 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Sepkoski] |