PBDB Collection

Agate Springs Quarries: Harrisonian, Nebraska

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae

	Parahippus sp. (Leidy 1858)	Hunt 1985
	= Equidae indet. Gray 1821	Alroy 2002

	Anchitherium agatense	Forsten 1975
	from "Agate Springs"; not in Hunt's list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae

	Diceratherium arikarense n. sp. Barbour 1906	Barbour 1906
	recombined as Menoceras arikarense

	Diceratherium cooki n. sp. Peterson 1906
	synonym of Menoceras arikarense
	see also Prothero and Manning 1987; "M. sp." of Hunt 1985 (4 measurements)

	Diceratherium loomisi n. sp. Cook 1912	Cook 1912
	synonym of Menoceras arikarense

	Diceratherium sp. Marsh 1875	Hunt 1985

	Diceratherium niobrarense (Peterson 1906)	Prothero 2005
	original and current combination Diceratherium niobrarensis
	"Arikareean Quarry A" and "Agate Springs Quarry A"
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Chalicotheriidae

	Moropus elatus Marsh 1877
	"M. sp." of Hunt 1985 (1 measurement)
Mammalia - Entelodontidae

	Dinohyus hollandi n. sp. (Peterson 1905)
	"D. sp." of Hunt 1985
Mammalia - Palaeomerycidae

	Blastomeryx pristinus n. sp. Cook 1934	Cook 1934
	nomen dubium belonging to Aletomeryx
	specific quarry not indicated (1 measurement)
Mammalia - Camelidae

	Camelidae indet. Gray 1821	Hunt 1985
Mammalia - Merycoidodontidae

	Merychyus siouxensis Loomis 1924	Schultz and Falkenbach 1947
	synonym of Paramerychyus harrisonensis
	presumably includes any of several "Upper Harrison" oreodonts of Peterson 1907; no oreodonts in Hunt's list
Mammalia - Tayassuidae

	Thinohyus siouxensis n. sp. Peterson 1906	Peterson 1906
	recombined as Stuckyhyus siouxensis
	"Agate Spring Stock Farm"
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae

	Cephalogale sp. Jourdan 1862	Hunt 1985
	not discussed in Hunt 1972; at University Quarry according to Hunt 1998a
Mammalia - Carnivora - Amphicyonidae

	Daphoenodon superbus (Peterson 1907)	Hunt 1998
	University Quarry and Carnegie Quarry 1

	Cynelos sp. Jourdan 1862	Hunt 1985
	from Quarry 1 according to Albright 1996, Hunt 1998b

	Ysengrinia sp. Ginsburg 1965	Hunt 1985
	from University Quarry: Hunt 1998b
	= Ysengrinia americana Wortman 1901	Hunt 2002

	Delotrochanter oryktes Hunt 2011	Hunt 2011
	"removed from Princeton University quarry block (now YPM-PU 12213), Princeton Expedition of 1914, loc. 1002A, Carnegie Hill waterhole bonebed, Agate Fossil Beds National Monument, Sioux County, Nebraska"
Reptilia - Charadriiformes - Glareolidae

	Paractiornis perpusillus n. gen., n. sp. Wetmore 1930	Wetmore 1930
	1929 MCZ collection from "Carnegie Hill, Agate fossil quarry"
Reptilia - Tetraonidae

	Palaealectoris incertus n. gen., n. sp. Wetmore 1930	Wetmore 1930
	1928 MCZ collection from "Agate Springs quarries"
Reptilia - Cracidae

	Ortalis tantala n. sp. Wetmore 1933	Wetmore 1933
	H. J. Cook collection made between 1929 and 1931 from "the large quarry... on the southwest side of Carnegie Hill"
Reptilia - Buteonidae

	Proictinia effera n. sp. Wetmore 1923	Wetmore 1958	1 specimen
Reptilia - Accipitriformes - Accipitridae

	Accipitridae indet. Viellot 1816	Wetmore 1933
	H. J. Cook collection made between 1929 and 1931 from "the large quarry... on the southwest side of Carnegie Hill"
see common names

Geography

Country:	United States	State/province:	Nebraska	County:	Sioux
Coordinates:	42.4° North, 103.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	43.3° North, 98.8° West
Basis of coordinate:	based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:	outcrop

Time


10 m.y. bin:	Cenozoic 4-5
*Period:	Tertiary	*Epoch:	Miocene
Key time interval:	Harrisonian
Age range of interval:	23.10000 - 18.50000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields

Stratigraphy

Geological group:	Hemingford	Formation:	Marsland	Member:	Basal
Local section:	PineR	Local bed:	14
Local order:	bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:	group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: "basal member of Upper Harrison Beds"

Lithology and environment

Primary lithology:	sandstone
Environment:	"channel"
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: channel

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:	body
Size of fossils:	macrofossils

Collection methods and comments

Reason for describing collection:	biostratigraphic analysis
Collection method comments: ETE reference list: 478
Taxonomic list comments:does NOT include Peterson's Quarry A (see) see also Beardog Hill (= Quarry 3, Den Site) miscellaneous "Agate" records: "Cynodesmus" thomsoni Peterson 1910: "upper Harrison beds... Niobrara River, Sioux Co." Desmocyon thomsoni Wang et al. 1999: "south of Harrison, high brown sand"; "locality KU-NE-028, Dout Ranch, Sitting Hen and vicinity" (all Upper Harrison) "Cynarctus" acridens McGrew 1937a: referred specimen, "upper Harrison beds east of Agate, Sioux County"; this is actually Cynarctoides emryi: Wang et al. 1999 "Promerycochoerus carrikeri" Schultz and Falkenbach 1949: "2 mi. N. of Harrison-Van Tassel road, 1/2 mi. E. of Wyoming state line"; same "1/4 mi. E" of line; and "S. of Harrison"; all in "upper portion of the Harrison beds" - Harrison Fm. or Upper Harrison?? "Phenacocoelus stouti" Schultz and Falkenbach 1950: "south of Harrison, Sioux County" implicitly assigned to the "lower Marsland" Oxydactylus campestris Cook 1909a: "Lower Harrison Beds, near Agate, Sioux County" Nanotragulus albanensis Frick 1937: type, "Lower Harrison, Sioux County" revision of Peterson 1906, 1907

Metadata

Also known as:	Agate Bone Bed; Agate Fossil Beds; Agate Spring Quarries; Carnegie Hill; University Hill; Peterson's Quarries 1 and 2; ETE Locality 1506
Database number:	17741
Authorizer:	J. Alroy, M. Carrano, J. Marcot	Enterer:	J. Alroy, J. Marcot, M. Carrano
Modifier:	M. Uhen	Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	1993-09-27 00:00:00	Last modified:	2020-11-19 15:17:31
Access level:	the public	Released:	1993-09-27 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:	CC BY

Reference information

Primary reference:

2751.

O. A. Peterson. 1907. The Miocene Beds of Western Nebraska and Eastern Wyoming and Their Vertebrate Faunae. Annals of Carnegie Museum 4(3):21-72 [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]
63661		Anonymous. 1917. Paleontology. Annual Report of the Colorado Museum of Natural History for the Year 1916 19-23 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
980		E. H. Barbour. 1906. Notice of a new Miocene rhinoceros, Diceratherium arikarense. Science 24(624):780-781 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
1264		H. J. Cook. 1912. A new species of rhinoceros (Diceratherium loomisi) from the lower Miocene of Nebraska. Nebraska Geological Survey Bulletin 7(4):29-32 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]
1268		H. J. Cook. 1934. New artiodactyls from the Oligocene and Lower Miocene of Nebraska. American Midland Naturalist 15(2):148-165 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
1504		A. -M. Forsten. 1975. The Fossil Horses of the Texas Gulf Coastal Plain: A Revision . Pearce-Sellards Series 22:1-86 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
5678	ETE 1434	R. M. Hunt. 1990. Taphonomy and sedimentology of Arikaree (lower Miocene) fluvial, eolian, and lacustrine paleoenvironments, Nebraska and Wyoming; a paleobiota entombed in fine-grained wolcaniclastic rocks,. In: Lockley, M.G. and Rice, A., eds. Volcanism and Fossil Biotas. Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America, Special Paper 244 69-111 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]
1971		R. M. Hunt, Jr. 1985. Faunal succession, lithofacies, and depositional environments in Arikaree rocks (lower Miocene) of the Hartville Table, Nebraska and Wyoming. Dakoterra 2(2):155-204 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
1977		R. M. Hunt, Jr. 1998. Amphicyonidae. 196-227 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
52421		R. M. Hunt, Jr. 2011. Evolution of Large Carnivores During the Mid-Cenozoic of North America: The Temnocyonine Radiation (Mammalia, Amphicyonidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 358:1-153 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]
48532		S. L. Olson and D. W. Steadman. 1979. The fossil record of the Glareolidae and Haematopodidae (Aves: Charadriiformes). 91(4):972-981 [M. Uhen/J. David]
2749		O. A. Peterson. 1906. New suilline remains from the Miocene of Nebraska. Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum 2(8):305-325 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]
2754		O. A. Peterson. 1910. Description of new carnivores from the Miocene of western Nebraska. Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum 4(5):205-278 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]
51726		D. R. Prothero. 2005. The Evolution of North American Rhinoceroses. 1-218 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]
3064		C. B. Schultz and C. H. Falkenbach. 1947. Merychyinae, a subfamily of oreodonts. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 88(4):157-286 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]
25082		A. Wetmore. 1930. Two fossil birds from the Miocene of Nebraska. Condor 32(3):152-154 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
25083		A. Wetmore. 1933. A fossil gallinaceous bird from the Lower Miocene of Nebraska. The Condor 35(2):64-65 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
26465	ETE	A. Wetmore. 1958. Miscellaneous notes on fossil birds. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 135(8):1-11 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]