Lone Skull Quarry: Geringian, Nebraska

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Palaeocastor nebrascensis (Leidy 1856)
    = Palaeocastor sp. Leidy 1869
Alroy 2002
see Xu 1996
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Geringia mcgregori (Macdonald 1970)
"B"
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Palaeolagus hypsodus Schlaikjer 1935
Palaeolagus philoi Dawson 1958
Mammalia - Geolabididae
Centetodon magnus (Clark 1936)
Mammalia - Proscalopidae
Proscalops tertius Reed 1961
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Nebraska County:Morrill
Coordinates: 41.7° North, 103.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:42.5° North, 96.6° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Oligocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 4
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval:Geringian
Age range of interval:30.80000 - 26.30000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Gering Member:Unit B
Local section:NPlat Local bed:6
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Metadata
Also known as:Mo-160
Database number:17535
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-02-18 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:42
Access level:the public Released:1993-02-18 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

3345. C. C. Swisher. 1982. Stratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the eastern portion of the Wildcat Ridge, western Nebraska. 1-172 [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]