Sherman Ranch Locality: Clarendonian, Nebraska

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
"Merychippus" cf. coloradense (Osborn 1918)
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Pseudhipparion retrusum (Cope 1889)
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Hypohippus sp. (Leidy 1858)
original and current combination Anchitherium (Hypohippus)
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Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Teleoceras major Hatcher 1894
Prothero 1989
pers. commun.: "fossiger"
Mammalia - Tayassuidae
Prosthennops sp. Matthew and Gidley 1904
    = Tayassuinae indet. Palmer 1897
Alroy 2002
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Mammalia - Antilocapridae
Merycodus sp. Leidy 1854
    = Merycodontinae indet. Matthew 1904
Alroy 2002
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Mammalia - Camelidae
Procamelus sp. Leidy 1858
    = Camelidae indet. Gray 1821
Alroy 2002
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Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Felidae indet. Gray 1821
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Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Tomarctus sp. Cope 1873
    = Borophaginae indet. Simpson 1945
Alroy 2002
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Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Eucastor sp. Allen 1877
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see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Nebraska County:Cherry
Coordinates: 42.8° North, 100.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.3° North, 98.2° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5-6
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval:Clarendonian
Age range of interval:12.50000 - 9.40000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Ogallala Formation:Valentine Member:Burge
Local section:ValAH Local bed:4
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:UCMP
Metadata
Also known as:UCMP V-6238
DUPLICATE REF 3564 or 3565
Database number:18372
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:1992-08-05 00:00:00 Last modified:2018-02-05 15:04:23
Access level:the public Released:1992-08-05 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

3564. S. D. Webb. 1969. The Burge and Minnechaduza Clarendonian Mammalian Faunas of North-Central Nebraska. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 78:1-191 [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]
6328 D. R. Prothero. 1989. Personal communication regarding rhinocerotid identifications. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]