Where: Sheridan County, Nebraska (42.7° N, 102.7° W: paleocoordinates 43.2° N, 100.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Ash Hollow Formation, Late/Upper Clarendonian (12.5 - 9.4 Ma)
• said to be from the "Loup Fork deposits" by Wortman (1894), the Valentine beds by Matthew (1924), most likely Clarendonian and from the Ash Hollow Formation by Voorhies (1990) and Baskin (2005)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the AMNH
Primary reference: W. W. Korth and J. A. Baskin. 2009. A new species of Leptarctus (Carnivora, Mustelidae) from the late Clarendonian (late Miocene) of Kansas. Annals of Carnegie Museum 78(1):29-44 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 110828: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 14.06.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Leptarctus wortmani n. sp.
Leptarctus wortmani n. sp. Matthew 1924 mustelid carnivore initially described as L. primus by Wortman (1894)
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