Nipple Butte Quarry: Arikareean, Nebraska
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
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Peratherium spindleri
Macdonald 1963
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= Herpetotherium youngi
McGrew 1937
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Nanodelphys sp.
McGrew 1937
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| said to be new | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Proscalopidae
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Proscalops tertius
Reed 1961
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Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Palaeolagus hypsodus
Schlaikjer 1935
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Palaeolagus philoi
Dawson 1958
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Heteromyidae
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Proheteromys fedti
Macdonald 1963
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| recombined as Proharrymys fedti | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Castoridae
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Palaeocastor nebrascensis
(Leidy 1856)
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= Palaeocastor sp.
Leidy 1869
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
| see Xu 1996 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Zetamyidae
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Zetamys nebraskensis
Martin 1974
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Leidymys blacki
(Macdonald 1963)
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Geringia mcgregori
(Macdonald 1970)
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| "A": probably includes specimen of "Paciculus nebraskensis" from "Mo-104" of L. Martin 1980a, said by Korth 1992a to be "Geringia, or a new cricetid"; according to Swisher, "Most of the specimens referred to Paciculus by Martin (1980) are referrable to Geringia." | ||||||||||
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Eumys brachyodus
Wood 1937
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Florentiamyidae
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Sanctimus stuartae
Macdonald 1970
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| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Nebraska | County: | Morrill |
| Coordinates: | 41.7° North, 103.1° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 42.6° North, 97.3° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 4-5 | ||
| *Period: | Tertiary | *Epoch: | Oligocene |
| Key time interval: | Arikareean | ||
| Age range of interval: | 29.50000 - 18.50000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Brule | Member: | Brown Siltstone | ||
| Local section: | NPlat | Local bed: | 5 | ||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Unit A | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
Metadata
| Also known as: | Mo-104, in part | ||
| Database number: | 17567 | ||
| 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] |