Lisco Locality C: Blancan, Nebraska
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Bufonidae
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Bufo indet.
Laurenti 1768
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Holman 1991 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Ranidae
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Rana indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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Holman 1991 | 42 specimens | ||||||||
Rana pipiens
Schreber 1782
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Holman 1991 | 31 specimens | ||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Sciuridae
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Marmota sp.
Frisch 1775
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(1 measurement) | ||||||||||
= Paenemarmota barbouri
Hibbard and Schultz 1948
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Hibbard and Schultz 1948 | |||||||||
from UNSM Gd-14 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Heteromyidae
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Dipodomys sp.
Gray 1841
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= Dipodomyinae indet.
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
could be Prodipodomys | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus simplicidens
Cope 1892
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recombined as Plesippus simplicidens | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Gigantocamelus spatulus
(Cope 1893)
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? Megatylopus cochrani
(Hibbard and Riggs 1949)
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Voorhies and Corner 1986 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Felidae
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"Smilodon" sp.
Lund 1841
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Canis sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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= Canis lepophagus
Johnston 1938
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Nowak 1979 | |||||||||
= Canis ferox
Miller and Carranza-Castaneda 1998
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Tedford et al. 2009 | |||||||||
recombined as Eucyon ferox | ||||||||||
Borophagus sp.
Cope 1892
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= Borophagus diversidens
Cope 1892
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Wang et al. 1999 | |||||||||
from UNSM Gd-14 | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Chelydridae
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Chelydra serpentina
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Holman 1991 | 4 specimens | ||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Kinosternoidea
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Kinosternon flavescens
(Agassiz 1857)
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Holman 1991 | 51 specimens | ||||||||
one shell + 50 fragments | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Crotalidae
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Crotalus indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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Holman 1991 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
Reptilia
- Colubridae
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Elaphe vulpina
(Baird and Girard 1853)
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Holman 1991 | 10 specimens | ||||||||
Lampropeltis triangulum
Lacépède 1788
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Holman 1991 | 9 specimens | ||||||||
Coluber indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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Holman 1991 | 5 specimens | ||||||||
Pituophis catenifer
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Holman 1991 | 30 specimens | ||||||||
single individual | ||||||||||
Storeria indet.
Baird and Girard 1853
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Holman 1991 | 5 specimens | ||||||||
Nerodia sipedon
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Holman 1991 | 59 specimens | ||||||||
Thamnophis radix
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Holman 1991 | 48 specimens | ||||||||
Thamnophis sirtalis
Linnaeus
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Holman 1991 | 61 specimens | ||||||||
Heterodon indet.
Latreille 1801
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Holman 1991 | 3 specimens | ||||||||
Reptilia
- Teiidae
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Cnemidophorus sexlineatus
(Linnaeus 1766)
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Holman 1991 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
Reptilia
- Scincidae
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Eumeces indet.
Wiegmann 1834
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Holman 1991 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
Reptilia
- Iguanidae
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Sceloporus (cf. Sceloporus) robustus
Twente 1952
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Holman 1991 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
Sceloporus undulatus
(Bosc 1802)
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Holman 1991 | 3 specimens | ||||||||
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-13, 14, 15 | ||
Database number: | 19960 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy, J. Head, J. Marcot | Enterer: | J. Alroy, J. Head, 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:
6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
1906 | C. W. Hibbard and C. B. Schultz. 1948. A new Sciurid of Blancan Age from Kansa and Nebraska. Bulletin of the Nebraska State Museum 3(3):1-11 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] | |
45331 | J. A. Holman. 1991. Fossil herpetofauna of the Lisco C Quarries (Pliocene: early Blancan) of Nebraska. Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences XVIII:19-29 [J. Head/J. Head] | |
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] | |
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] | |
3558 | X. Wang, R. H. Tedford, and B. E. Taylor. 1999. Phylogenetic systematics of the Borophaginae (Carnivora: Canidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 243:1-392 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |