Sand Draw Quarry: Blancan, Nebraska
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Colubridae
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Heterodon platyrhinos
(Latreille 1801)
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Brattstrom 1967 | |||||||||
Natrix sp.
Laurenti 1768
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Brattstrom 1967 | |||||||||
= Nerodia sp.
Baird and Girard 1853
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Alroy 2009 | |||||||||
Thamnophis sp.
Fitzinger 1843
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Brattstrom 1967 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Kinosternoidea
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Kinosternon flavescens
(Agassiz 1857)
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Fichter 1969 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Testudinidae
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Geochelone (Hesperotestudo) oelrichi
Holman 1972
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Holman 1972 | |||||||||
synonym of Hesperotestudo turgida | ||||||||||
paratypes | ||||||||||
Geochelone (Hesperotestudo) sp.
(Williams 1950)
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Auffenberg 1962 | |||||||||
possibly johnstoni | ||||||||||
= Caudochelys sp.
Auffenberg 1963
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Vlachos 2018 | |||||||||
synonym of Hesperotestudo | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Gomphotheriidae
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Stegomastodon primitivus
Osborn 1936
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Sciuridae
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Spermophilus meltoni
Hibbard 1972
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Spermophilus johnstoni
Hibbard 1972
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Spermophilus boothi
Hibbard 1972
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Ogmodontomys poaphagus
Hibbard 1941
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described by Zakrzewski 1967a | ||||||||||
Nebraskomys mcgrewi n. sp.
Hibbard 1957
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see Hibbard 1957a (1 measurement) | ||||||||||
Pliophenacomys primaevus
(Hibbard 1937)
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OK, see Zakrzewski 1984 | ||||||||||
Pliolemmus antiquus
Hibbard 1937
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Sigmodon medius
Gidley 1922
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synonym of Sigmodon minor | ||||||||||
Neotoma sp.
Say and Ord 1825
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= Neotoma cf. quadriplicata
Hibbard 1941
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Zakrzewski 1993 | |||||||||
Peromyscus cf. kansasensis
Hibbard 1941
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Pliopotamys meadensis
Hibbard 1937
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= Ondatra meadensis
Hibbard 1937
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
Ophiomys magilli
Hibbard 1972
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placed in Ogmodontomys as a lapsus | ||||||||||
Ophiomys fricki
Hibbard 1972
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Pliophenacomys primaevus
(Hibbard 1937)
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= Hibbardomys skinneri n. sp.
Zakrzewski 1984
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Zakrzewski 1984 | |||||||||
in part | ||||||||||
Onychomys sp.
Baird 1858
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Calomys (Bensonomys) meadensis
(Hibbard 1956)
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Castoridae
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Dipoides rexroadensis
Hibbard and Riggs 1949
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Procastoroides sweeti
Barbour and Schultz 1937
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Geomyidae
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Geomys quinni
McGrew 1944
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Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Leporidae indet.
Fischer de Waldheim 1817
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Mammalia
- Talpidae
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Scalopus aquaticus
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Mammalia
- Soricidae
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Sorex sandersi
Hibbard 1956
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Planisorex dixonensis
(Hibbard 1956)
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Mustelidae
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Satherium priscinaria
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= Satherium piscinarium
Leidy 1873
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
Taxidea cf. taxus
(Schreber 1778)
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Trigonictis cookii
(Gazin 1934)
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Ray et al. 1981 | |||||||||
from "Booth Draw" loc. 277 | ||||||||||
Trigonictis kansasensis
Hibbard 1941
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= Trigonictis macrodon
Cope 1868
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
or "T. idahoensis" | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Mephitidae
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Buisnictis burrowsi
Skinner and Hibbard 1972
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Felidae
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Smilodon sp.
Lund 1841
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= Machairodontinae indet.
Gill 1872
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
replaces ID of McGrew | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Canis edwardii
Gazin 1942
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Tedford et al. 2009 | |||||||||
Canis lepophagus
Johnston 1938
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Borophagus diversidens
Cope 1892
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confirmed by Wang et al. 1999 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Cervidae
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Cervidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Mammalia
- Antilocapridae
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Capromeryx sp.
Matthew 1902
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= Capromeryx tauntonensis
Morgan and Morgan 1995
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Morgan and Morgan 1995 | |||||||||
"Antilocapridae indet. of Skinner and Hibbard 1972; "C. furcifer" of Frick 1937 from "Stegomastodon Quarry" | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Tayassuidae
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Platygonus sp.
Leconte 1848
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Gigantocamelus sp.
Barbour and Schultz 1939
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= Gigantocamelus spatulus
Cope 1893
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
replaces ID of McGrew | ||||||||||
Camelops sp.
Leidy 1854
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Tanupolama sp.
Stock 1928
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= Hemiauchenia sp.
Gervais and Ameghino 1880
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
from "Sand Draw" | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus calobatus
(Troxell 1915)
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synonym of Equus francisci | ||||||||||
Equus simplicidens
Cope 1892
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recombined as Plesippus simplicidens | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Nebraska | County: | Brown |
Coordinates: | 42.7° North, 100.0° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 42.8° North, 99.3° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
*Period: | Tertiary | *Epoch: | Pliocene |
Key time interval: | Blancan | ||
Age range of interval: | 4.70000 - 1.40000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Taxonomic list comments:from a single 26 ft interval list updated and extended by Skinner and Hibbard 1972 "Equus cf. conversidens": specimen is from an indeterminate horizon |
Metadata
Also known as: | UNSM Sand Draw locality; Frick Prospecting Locality 277; Magill; Owl Pellet; UM-Neb. sites 1-66, 2-66, 2-67, 4-67, 5-67, 1-68 | ||
Database number: | 19963 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot, E. Vlachos | Enterer: | J. Alroy, E. Vlachos, J. Marcot |
Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2009-07-15 19:07:59 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
2518. | P. O. McGrew. 1944. An Early Pleistocene (Blancan) fauna from Nebraska. Geological Series, Field Museum of Natural History 9(2):31-66 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/C. Bell] |
Secondary references:
6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
29343 | J. Alroy. 2009. High-handed opinions on taxonomy and other matters. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
27051 | W. Auffenberg. 1962. A new species of Geochelone from the Pleistocene of Texas. Copeia 1962(3):627-636 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
30836 | B. H. Brattstrom. 1967. A succession of Pliocene and Pleistocene snake faunas from the High Plains of the United States. Copeia 1967(1):188-202 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
26905 | L. S. Fichter. 1969. Geographical distribution and osteological variation in fossil and Recent specimens of two species of Kinosternon (Testudines). Journal of Herpetology 3(3/4):113-119 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
64778 | J. A. Holman. 1972. Amphibians and reptiles. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 148:55-71 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] | |
2625 | J. K. Morgan and N. H. Morgan. 1995. A New Species of Capromeryx (Mammalia: Artiodactyla) from the Taunton Local Fauna of Washington, and the Correlation with Other Blancan Faunas of Washington and Idaho. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 15(1):160-170 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju] | |
2841 | C. E. Ray, E. Anderson, and S. D. Webb. 1981. The Blancan carnivore Trigonictis (Mammalia: Mustelidae) in the Eastern United States. Brimleyana 5:1-36 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] | |
52058 | R. H. Tedford, X. Wang, and B. E. Taylor. 2009. Phylogenetic Systematics of the North American Fossil Caninae (Carnivora: Canidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 325:1-218 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot/G. Lloyd] | |
64371 | E. Vlachos. 2018. A Review of the Fossil Record of North American Turtles of the Clade Pan-Testudinoidea. Bulletin of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History 59(1):3-94 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] | |
3792 | R. J. Zakrzewski. 1984. New Arvicolines (Mammalia: Rodentia) from the Blancan of Kansas and Nebraska. In H. H. Genoways and M. R. Dawson (eds.), Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication 8:200-217 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] | |
3797 | R. J. Zakrzewski. 1993. Morphological change in woodrat (Rodentia: Cricetidae) molars. In R. A. Martin and A. D. Barnosky (eds.), Morphological change in Quaternary mammals of North America 392-410 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] |