Lisco Locality B: Blancan, Nebraska

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Accipitriformes - Accipitridae
Spizaetus tanneri n. sp. Martin 1971
Martin 1971
Mammalia - Megalonychidae
Megalonyx leptostomus Cope 1893
Voorhies and Corner 1986
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Mammut sp. Blumenbach 1799
    = Mammut (Pliomastodon) sp. Blumenbach 1799
Martin 1971
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Homotherium sp. Fabrini 1890
Schultz and Martin 1970
DUPLICATE REF 3070 or 3071
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Borophagus sp. Cope 1892
Canis sp. Linnaeus 1758
    = Canis lepophagus Johnston 1938
Nowak 1979
    = Canis ferox Miller and Carranza-Castaneda 1998
Tedford et al. 2009
recombined as Eucyon ferox
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus simplicidens Cope 1892
recombined as Plesippus simplicidens
Mammalia - Camelidae
? Megatylopus cochrani (Hibbard and Riggs 1949)
Voorhies and Corner 1986
Gigantocamelus fricki n. sp. Barbour and Schultz 1939
Barbour and Schultz 1939
synonym of Gigantocamelus spatulus
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Sciuridae indet. Gray 1821
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Procastoroides sp. Barbour and Schultz 1937
Mammalia - Rodentia - Geomyidae
Geomys quinni McGrew 1944
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Nebraska County:Garden
Coordinates: 41.4° North, 102.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.5° North, 101.8° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
*Period:Tertiary *Epoch:Pliocene
Key time interval:Blancan
Age range of interval:4.90000 - 1.80000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Museum repositories:UNSM
Metadata
Also known as:UNSM Gd-12
Database number:19959
Authorizer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot Enterer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-02-18 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:44
Access level:the public Released:1993-02-18 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

3073. C. B. Schultz and T. M. Stout. 1948. Pleistocene of the Great Plains. Geological Society America Bulletin 59:553-588 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]

Secondary references:

1009 E. H. Barbour and C. B. Schultz. 1939. A new giant camel, Gigantocamelus fricki, gen. et sp. nov. Bulletin of the Nebraska State Museum 2(2):17-27 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]
28664 L. D. Martin. 1971. An Early Pleistocene Eagle from Nebraska. Condor 73(2):248-250 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
2673 R. M. Nowak. 1979. North American Quaternary Canis. Monograph of the Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas 6:1-154 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
3070 C. B. Schultz and L. D. Martin. 1970. Bulletin of the Nebraska State Museum 9(2) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
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]
3512 M. R. Voorhies and R. G. Corner. 1986. Megatylopus(?) cochrani (Mammalia: Camelidae): A Re-Evaluation. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 6(1):65-75 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]