Antelope Creek: Hemingfordian, Nebraska
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Merycoidodontidae
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Merychyus elegans
Leidy 1858
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| Antelope Valley, Dawes Co. | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Moschidae
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Blastomeryx gemmifer
(Cope 1874)
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Frick 1937 | |||||||||
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= Blastomeryx medius
Matthew 1924
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
| synonym of Blastomeryx gemmifer | ||||||||||
| "Blastomeryx gemmifer medius": "Antelope Creek... 3 Miles South and 8 Miles West of Hay Springs" | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Palaeomerycidae
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Dromomeryx trigonocorneus n. sp.
Barbour and Schultz 1934
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Barbour and Schultz 1934 | |||||||||
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= Barbouromeryx trigonocorneus
Barbour and Schultz 1934
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
| from "3 mi. W. of Hay Springs, on S. side of Antelope Creek, Dawes County"; probably "B. sp." of Stirton 1944; said to be "early Hemingfordian" and from the "Marsland" by Webb 1983; placed at 3.5 mi S and 9.5 mi W of Hay Springs by Frick 1937 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Nebraska | County: | Dawes |
| Coordinates: | 42.8° North, 103.1° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 43.5° North, 99.2° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Burdigalian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 |
| *Period: | Tertiary | *Local age/stage: | Hemingfordian |
| Key time interval: | Hemingfordian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 18.50000 - 16.30000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphy comments: said to be Hemingfordian |
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some genera |
| Taxonomic list comments:see Frick 1937 "Antelope Valley" and "Antelope Creek" are clearly the same based on map of Galusha 1975 and references of various authors type of "Nothocyon latidens multicuspis" Thorpe 1922e was shipped from "Antelope Creek" NE but may not have been collected anywhere near there | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 17867 | ||
| 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:
| 3064. | C. B. Schultz and C. H. Falkenbach. 1947. Merychyinae, a subfamily of oreodonts. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 88(4):157-286 [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] | |
| 1006 | E. H. Barbour and C. B. Schultz. 1934. A new antilocaprid and a new cervid from the late Tertiary of Nebraska. American Museum Novitates 734:1-4 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
| 6222 | C. Frick. 1937. Horned ruminants of North America. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 69:1-669 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] |