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 | |
Nebraskomys mcgrewi n. sp., Pliophenacomys primaevus, Peromyscus cf. kansasensis, Onychomys sp., Ondatra meadensis1, Ophiomys magilli, Ophiomys fricki, Hibbardomys skinneri n. sp.10, "Sigmodon medius" = Sigmodon minor, Calomys (Bensonomys) meadensis, Pliolemmus antiquus, Neotoma cf. quadriplicata11, Ogmodontomys poaphagus
Peromyscus cf. kansasensis Hibbard 1941 deer mouse
Onychomys sp. Baird 1858 grasshopper mouse
Ophiomys fricki Hibbard 1972 vole
"Sigmodon medius" = Sigmodon minor Gidley 1922 cotton rat
Calomys (Bensonomys) meadensis Hibbard 1956 mouse
Pliolemmus antiquus Hibbard 1937 mouse | |
Spermophilus johnstoni Hibbard 1972 ground squirrel
Spermophilus boothi Hibbard 1972 ground squirrel
Spermophilus meltoni Hibbard 1972 ground squirrel | |
Geomys quinni McGrew 1944 pocket gopher | |
Dipoides rexroadensis Hibbard and Riggs 1949 beaver
Procastoroides sweeti Barbour and Schultz 1937 beaver | |
Scalopus aquaticus Linnaeus 1758 eastern mole | |
Sorex sandersi Hibbard 1956 long-tailed shrew
Planisorex dixonensis Hibbard 1956 red-toothed shrew | |
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Buisnictis burrowsi Skinner and Hibbard 1972 skunk | |
Taxidea cf. taxus Schreber 1778 American badger | |
Canis lepophagus Johnston 1938 canine | |
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Cervidae indet. Gray 1821 deer | |
Platygonus sp. Leconte 1848 peccary | |
Camelops sp. Leidy 1854 camel | |
Equus calobatus, "Equus simplicidens" = Plesippus simplicidens
Equus calobatus Troxell 1915 horse
"Equus simplicidens" = Plesippus simplicidens Cope 1892 horse | |
Stegomastodon primitivus Osborn 1936 gomphothere |