Zodiolestes Locality: Harrisonian, Nebraska
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Castoridae
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Castoridae indet.
Gray 1821
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| "Steneofiber" | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Mustelidae
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Zodiolestes daimonelixensis n. gen., n. sp.
Riggs 1942
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Riggs 1945 | |||||||||
| "Harrison Beds... Niobrara River, Sioux County... Daimonelix zone" (3 measurements) | ||||||||||
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Promartes olcotti n. sp.
Riggs 1942
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Riggs 1945 | |||||||||
| "Harrison Beds... Niobrara River, Sioux County"; this is clearly the "small musteline" from the Zodiolestes locality mentioned by Hough 1948b | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Merycoidodontidae
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Merychyus sp.
Leidy 1858
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Oxydactylus sp.
Peterson 1904
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= Camelidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Nebraska | County: | Sioux |
| Coordinates: | 42.4° North, 103.8° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 43.3° North, 98.8° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 4-5 | ||
| *Period: | Tertiary | *Epoch: | Miocene |
| Key time interval: | Harrisonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 23.10000 - 18.50000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Taxonomic list comments: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 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 17863 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-06-03 03:27:42 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 7017. | 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] |
Secondary references:
| 6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
| 2911 | 5% 46120 | E. S. Riggs. 1945. Some early Miocene carnivores. Geological Series, Field Museum of Natural History 9(3):69-114 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Wertheim] |