Where: Dawes County, Nebraska (42.7° N, 102.7° W: paleocoordinates 43.4° N, 98.8° W)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Runningwater Formation, Early/Lower Hemingfordian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)
• Gazin 1936: "The deposits at this locality are believed to be equivalent to the Snake Creek beds, but the horizon represented in this series is not definitely known. The age is apparently upper Miocene or possibly lower Pliocene."
•Baskin 2005: "from the early Hemingfordian Runningwater Formation of Nebraska"
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: C. L. Gazin. 1936. A new mustelid carnivore from the Neocene beds of northwestern Nebraska. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 26(5):199-207 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 160680: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 26.08.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Craterogale simus n. gen. n. sp.
Craterogale simus n. gen. n. sp. Gazin 1936 mustelid carnivore |