Redington Gap West (Basal Siltstone): Arikareean, Nebraska
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Archaeocyon leptodus
(Schlaikjer 1935)
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Wang et al. 1999 | |||||||||
"Horn Member... Redington Gap area (UNSM loc. Mo-108... 92 ft above the base of upper Whitney ash and 5 ft below... Gering"; also specimens from 10, 13, 30 - 40, and 50 ft above base of member, and from N of Redington Gap, 30 - 40 ft above base | ||||||||||
Cynodesmus martini n. sp.
Wang 1994
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Wang 1994 | |||||||||
1 mi W of Redington Gap, N of "an abandoned concrete house" 30 - 40 ft above Brule | ||||||||||
Mesocyon geringensis n. sp.
Barbour and Schultz 1935
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recombined as Sunkahetanka geringensis | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Merycoidodontidae
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Pseudocyclopidius major
(Leidy 1856)
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original and current combination Leptauchenia major | ||||||||||
Pithecistes mariae
Schultz and Falkenbach 1968
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= Leptauchenia decora
Leidy 1856
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Schultz and Falkenbach 1968 | |||||||||
lower Gering, "1 1/4 mi. W. and 1 1/2 mi. N. of Redington"; also their "L. martini" UNSM Mo-108 lower Gering | ||||||||||
Sespia marianae n. sp.
Schultz and Falkenbach 1968
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synonym of Sespia nitida | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Sciuridae
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Cedromus savannae
Hayes 2007
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Hayes 2007 | |||||||||
re-identification of Cedromus sp. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Paciculus nebraskensis n. sp.
Alker 1969
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Alker 1969 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
UNSM Mo-108, "0-10 feet above the Brule Gering contact" | ||||||||||
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
*Period: | Tertiary | *Epoch: | Oligocene |
Key time interval: | Arikareean | ||
Age range of interval: | 30.80000 - 20.43000 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
Museum repositories: | UNSM |
Taxonomic list comments:a.k.a. Horn Member of the Brule Formation note that Gering A is at least 50 ft thick "Mesoreodon chelonyx" Stevens and Stevens 1996: "brown siltstone member" 1/4 mi W of Redington Gap Road, Morrill Co. |
Metadata
Also known as: | UNSM Mo-108 | ||
Database number: | 17598 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot | Enterer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 1994-04-30 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-06-03 03:27:42 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1994-04-30 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:
945 | J. Alker. 1969. Paciculus (Cricetinae, incertae sedis) teeth from the Miocene of Nebraska. Journal of Paleontology 43(1):171-174 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano] | |
6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
1007 | E. H. Barbour and C. B. Schultz. 1935. A new Miocene dog, Mesocyon geringensis, sp. nov. Bulletin of the Nebraska State Museum 43(1):407-418 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
51382 | F. G. Hayes. 2007. Magnetostratigraphy and paleontology of Wagner Quarry, (late Oligocene, early Arikareean) basal Arikaree Group of the Pine Ridge region, Dawes County, Nebraska. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 47(1):1-48 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot] | |
3069 | C. B. Schultz and C. H. Falkenbach. 1968. The Phylogeny of the Oreodonts. Part 1: Merycoidodontinae, Eporeodontinae, and Leptaucheniinae, Three Subfamilies Of Oreodonts, With an Appendix to the Revision Of The Merycoidodontidae, and Part 2. Summary and Conclusions Concerning the Merycoidodontidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 139:1-498 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] | |
6226 | X. Wang. 1994. Phylogenetic systematics of the Hesperocyoninae (Carnivora: Canidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 221:1-207 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
3558 | X. Wang, R. H. Tedford, and B. E. Taylor. 1999. Phylogenetic systematics of the Borophaginae (Carnivora: Canidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 243:1-392 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |