Sand Creek (Chadron/Nebraska) (Eocene of the United States)
Where: Sioux County, Nebraska (42.4° N, 103.8° W: paleocoordinates 43.8° N, 95.1° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Chadron Formation, Chadronian (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Primary reference: O. A. Peterson. 1909. A revision of the Entelodontidae. Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum 4(3):1-136 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details
PaleoDB collection 17018: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.10.1995
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• headwaters about 4 mi S of Toadstool Park, continues E past about 6 mi N of Crawford; runs past multiple Ostrander localities
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"Merycoidodon culbertsoni" = Merycoidodon culbertsonii2
"Merycoidodon culbertsoni" = Merycoidodon culbertsonii2 Leidy 1848 oreodont "Merycoidodon culbertsoni browni": "7 mi. N. and 6 mi. W. of Crawford" in Sioux Co.; this is on Sand Creek
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Leptomeryx evansi1 Leidy 1853 ruminant CM specimen from "the Titanotherium Beds, Sand Creek" in Sioux County
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Archaeotherium crassum Marsh 1873 even-toed ungulate "Titanotherium beds on Sand Creek, Sioux County"; if county assignment is correct, this is from a three mile stretch of the river
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