Albert Ahrens Locality: Irvingtonian, Nebraska
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Elephantidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Mammutidae
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Mammut sp.
Blumenbach 1799
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Erethizontidae
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Erethizon sp.
Cuvier 1822
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Synaptomys meltoni
Paulson 1961
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= Mictomys meltoni
Paulson 1961
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Voorhies and Voorhies 1991 | |||||||||
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Neotoma sp.
Say and Ord 1825
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Phenacomys sp.
Merriam 1889
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Clethrionomys sp.
Tilesius 1850
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| synonym of Myodes | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Canis dirus
Leidy 1858
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Tedford et al. 2009 | |||||||||
| recombined as Aenocyon dirus | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Camelidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Bovidae indet.
Gray 1821
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| "muskoxen" | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Cervidae
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Odocoileus sp.
Rafinesque 1832
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Cervalces sp.
Scott 1885
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Mammalia
- Soricidae
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Sorex palustris
Richardson 1828
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Sorex arcticus
Kerr 1792
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Cryptotis sp.
Pomel 1848
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Nebraska | County: | Nuckolls |
| Coordinates: | 40.2° North, 98.1° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 40.2° North, 97.9° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | *Local age/stage: | Irvingtonian |
| Key time interval: | Irvingtonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 1.40000 - 0.21000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphy comments: said to be Irvingtonian |
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Museum repositories: | UNSM |
| Taxonomic list comments:"at least 2500 individual mammals... 55 mammalian species" | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | UNSM No-104 | ||
| Database number: | 20138 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot | Enterer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-06-03 03:27:44 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 3514. | M. R. Voorhies and R. G. Corner. 1991. Paleoclimatic implications of a new medial Pleistocene vertebrate site in south-central Nebraska: Irvingtonian mammals from the Albert Ahrens Locality. Proceedings of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences 111:63 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 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] | |
| 3499 | J. Voorhies and M. R. Voorhies. 1991. Dental histology of northern bog lemmings, Synaptomys (Mictomys), from the Plio-Pleistocene of Nebraska: Mustering the schmelzmusters. Proceedings of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences 111:62 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] |