Zodiolestes Locality ( of the United States)

Where: Sioux County, Nebraska (42.4° N, 103.8° W: paleocoordinates 43.3° N, 98.8° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Harrison Formation, Harrisonian (24.8 - 20.4 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: W. D. Matthew. 1909. The Carnivora and Insectivora of the Bridger Basin, middle Eocene. Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History 9:289-567 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

PaleoDB collection 17863: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.03.1995

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Taxonomic list

• see Riggs 1945 and Hough 1948b for identity of Matthew's "Daemonelix beds" locality and Riggs' Zodiolestes locality
not clear if this is in Niobrara Canyon, but at a lower level than Harper Quarry or Niobrara Canyon sensu stricto
Mammalia
 Rodentia - Castoridae
Castoridae indet. Gray 1821 beaver
"Steneofiber"
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Camelidae indet.1 Gray 1821 camel
 Artiodactyla - Merycoidodontidae
Merychyus sp. Leidy 1858 oreodont
 Carnivora - Mustelidae
Promartes olcotti n. sp.2 Riggs 1942 mustelid carnivore
"Harrison Beds... Niobrara River, Sioux County"; this is clearly the "small musteline" from the Zodiolestes locality mentioned by Hough 1948b
Zodiolestes daimonelixensis n. gen. n. sp.2 Riggs 1942 mustelid carnivore
"Harrison Beds... Niobrara River, Sioux County... Daimonelix zone"