Princeton Loc. 1000C: Early/Lower Barstovian, Nebraska

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Teleoceras medicornutum Osborn 1904
Prothero 2005
Mammalia - Moschidae
Blastomeryx gemmifer (Cope 1874)
    = Blastomeryx medius Matthew 1924
Frick 1937
synonym of Blastomeryx gemmifer
"Blastomeryx gemmifer medius": from "W. Sinclair Draw, Channel C"
Mammalia - Palaeomerycidae
Drepanomeryx falciformis n. sp. Sinclair 1915
Frick 1937
of Sinclair 1915 additional specimens from "Sinclair Draw, Sheep Creek Channel"
Dromomeryx whitfordi n. sp. Sinclair 1915
Sinclair 1915
synonym of Dromomeryx borealis
PU 12054
Mammalia - Bovidae
Neotragocerus improvisus Matthew and Cook 1909
Sinclair 1915
PU 12016
Mammalia - Camelidae
Protolabis princetonianus n. sp. Sinclair 1915
Sinclair 1915
synonym of Miolabis fissidens
PU 12053
Mammalia - Merycoidodontidae
Brachycrus siouense n. sp. (Sinclair 1915)
Schultz and Falkenbach 1940
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Pseudaelurus cf. intrepdius
Sinclair 1915
PU 12081
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Martes glareae n. sp. Sinclair 1915
synonym of Plionictis ogygia
Brachypsalis obliquidens n. sp. Sinclair 1915
Mammalia - Carnivora - Amphicyonidae
? Amphicyon sp. Lartet 1836
Sinclair 1915
"?Amphicyon sp. indesc."; PU 12078
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Aelurodon cf. wheelerianus (Cope 1877)
Sinclair 1915
synonym of Aelurodon ferox
PU 12068
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Nebraska County:Sioux
Coordinates: 42.4° North, 103.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.0° North, 100.6° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval:Early/Lower Barstovian
Age range of interval:16.30000 - 12.50000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Olcott
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:name also used for North Wall Quarry and Sinclair Quarry
includes both subcycle 2 and subcycle 3
Metadata
Also known as:Chan. C. Hor.; East Sand Quarry; West Surface Quarry
Database number:17983
Authorizer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot Enterer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot
Modifier:G. Varnham Research group:vertebrate
Created:1994-04-30 00:00:00 Last modified:2022-04-27 08:18:52
Access level:the public Released:1994-04-30 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
3175. M. F. Skinner, S. M. Skinner, and R. J. Gooris. 1977. Stratigraphy and biostratigraphy of late Cenozoic deposits in central Sioux County, western Nebraska. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 158(5):263-370 [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]
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]
51726 D. R. Prothero. 2005. The Evolution of North American Rhinoceroses. 1-218 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]
3062 C. B. Schultz and C. H. Falkenbach. 1940. Merycochoerinae, a new subfamily of oreodonts. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 77(5):213-306 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]
56894 W. J. Sinclair. 1915. Additions to the Fauna of the Lower Pliocene Snake Creek Beds (Results of the Princeton University 1914 Expedition to Nebraska). Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 54(217):73-95 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]