Also known as UNSM Sand Draw locality; Frick Prospecting Locality 277; Magill; Owl Pellet; UM-Neb. sites 1-66, 2-66, 2-67, 4-67, 5-67, 1-68
Where: Brown County, Nebraska (42.7° N, 100.0° W: paleocoordinates 42.8° N, 99.3° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Blancan (4.9 - 1.8 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: P. O. McGrew. 1944. An Early Pleistocene (Blancan) fauna from Nebraska. Geological Series, Field Museum of Natural History 9(2):31-66 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/C. Bell]more details
PaleoDB collection 19963: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993, edited by Jonathan Marcot and Evangelos Vlachos
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
list updated and extended by Skinner and Hibbard 1972
"Equus cf. conversidens": specimen is from an indeterminate horizon
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"Geochelone (Hesperotestudo) oelrichi" = Hesperotestudo turgida5, "Caudochelys sp." = Hesperotestudo9
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Mammalia | |
Leporidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817 rabbit | |
Neotoma cf. quadriplicata11, "Sigmodon medius" = Sigmodon minor, Ondatra meadensis1, Ophiomys magilli, Ophiomys fricki, Ogmodontomys poaphagus, Peromyscus cf. kansasensis, Nebraskomys mcgrewi n. sp., Pliophenacomys primaevus, Pliolemmus antiquus, Onychomys sp., Calomys (Bensonomys) meadensis, Hibbardomys skinneri n. sp.10
"Sigmodon medius" = Sigmodon minor Gidley 1922 cotton rat
Ophiomys fricki Hibbard 1972 vole
Peromyscus cf. kansasensis Hibbard 1941 deer mouse
Pliolemmus antiquus Hibbard 1937 mouse
Onychomys sp. Baird 1858 grasshopper mouse
Calomys (Bensonomys) meadensis Hibbard 1956 mouse | |
Spermophilus meltoni Hibbard 1972 ground squirrel
Spermophilus boothi Hibbard 1972 ground squirrel
Spermophilus johnstoni Hibbard 1972 ground squirrel | |
Procastoroides sweeti Barbour and Schultz 1937 beaver
Dipoides rexroadensis Hibbard and Riggs 1949 beaver | |
Geomys quinni McGrew 1944 pocket gopher | |
"Equus simplicidens" = Plesippus simplicidens, Equus calobatus
"Equus simplicidens" = Plesippus simplicidens Cope 1892 horse
Equus calobatus Troxell 1915 horse | |
Cervidae indet. Gray 1821 deer | |
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Camelops sp. Leidy 1854 camel | |
Platygonus sp. Leconte 1848 peccary | |
Canis lepophagus Johnston 1938 canine | |
Taxidea cf. taxus Schreber 1778 American badger | |
Buisnictis burrowsi Skinner and Hibbard 1972 skunk | |
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Scalopus aquaticus Linnaeus 1758 eastern mole | |
Sorex sandersi Hibbard 1956 long-tailed shrew
Planisorex dixonensis Hibbard 1956 red-toothed shrew | |
Stegomastodon primitivus Osborn 1936 gomphothere |