PBDB Collection

Agate Springs Quarries ( of the United States)

Also known as Agate Bone Bed; Agate Fossil Beds; Agate Spring Quarries; Carnegie Hill; University Hill; Peterson's Quarries 1 and 2; ETE Locality 1506

Where: Sioux County, Nebraska (42.4° N, 103.9° W: paleocoordinates 43.3° N, 98.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Basal Member (Marsland Formation), Harrisonian (24.8 - 18.5 Ma)

• "basal member of Upper Harrison Beds"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "channel"; sandstone

• ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: channel

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: ETE reference list: 478

Primary reference: O. A. Peterson. 1907. The Miocene Beds of Western Nebraska and Eastern Wyoming and Their Vertebrate Faunae. Annals of Carnegie Museum 4(3):21-72 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 17741: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 27.09.1993, edited by Matthew Carrano and Jonathan Marcot

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Taxonomic list

• does NOT include Peterson's Quarry A (see)
see also Beardog Hill (= Quarry 3, Den Site)
miscellaneous "Agate" records: "Cynodesmus" thomsoni Peterson 1910: "upper Harrison beds... Niobrara River, Sioux Co." Desmocyon thomsoni Wang et al. 1999: "south of Harrison, high brown sand"; "locality KU-NE-028, Dout Ranch, Sitting Hen and vicinity" (all Upper Harrison) "Cynarctus" acridens McGrew 1937a: referred specimen, "upper Harrison beds east of Agate, Sioux County"; this is actually Cynarctoides emryi: Wang et al. 1999 "Promerycochoerus carrikeri" Schultz and Falkenbach 1949: "2 mi. N. of Harrison-Van Tassel road, 1/2 mi. E. of Wyoming state line"; same "1/4 mi. E" of line; and "S. of Harrison"; all in "upper portion of the Harrison beds" - Harrison Fm. or Upper Harrison?? "Phenacocoelus stouti" Schultz and Falkenbach 1950: "south of Harrison, Sioux County" implicitly assigned to the "lower Marsland" Oxydactylus campestris Cook 1909a: "Lower Harrison Beds, near Agate, Sioux County" Nanotragulus albanensis Frick 1937: type, "Lower Harrison, Sioux County"
revision of Peterson 1906, 1907

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Aves
Charadriiformes - Glareolidae	Paractiornis perpusillus n. gen. n. sp.¹³ Paractiornis perpusillus n. gen. n. sp.¹³ Wetmore 1930 shorebird 1929 MCZ collection from "Carnegie Hill, Agate fossil quarry"
Accipitriformes - Accipitridae	Accipitridae indet.¹⁴ Accipitridae indet.¹⁴ Viellot 1816 hawk H. J. Cook collection made between 1929 and 1931 from "the large quarry... on the southwest side of Carnegie Hill"
Galliformes - Galloidae	Palaealectoris incertus n. gen. n. sp.¹³ Palaealectoris incertus n. gen. n. sp.¹³ Wetmore 1930 grouse 1928 MCZ collection from "Agate Springs quarries"
Galliformes - Cracidae	Ortalis tantala n. sp.¹⁴ Ortalis tantala n. sp.¹⁴ Wetmore 1933 chachalaca H. J. Cook collection made between 1929 and 1931 from "the large quarry... on the southwest side of Carnegie Hill"
Falconiformes - Falconoidae	Proictinia effera n. sp.¹⁵ Proictinia effera n. sp.¹⁵ Wetmore 1923 raptor
Mammalia
Carnivora - Amphicyonidae	Cynelos sp.⁶, Daphoenodon superbus⁷, Ysengrinia americana⁸, Delotrochanter oryktes⁹ Cynelos sp.⁶ Jourdan 1862 bear-dog from Quarry 1 according to Albright 1996, Hunt 1998b Daphoenodon superbus⁷ Peterson 1907 bear-dog University Quarry and Carnegie Quarry 1 Ysengrinia americana⁸ Wortman 1901 bear-dog from University Quarry: Hunt 1998b Delotrochanter oryktes⁹ Hunt 2011 bear-dog "removed from Princeton University quarry block (now YPM-PU 12213), Princeton Expedition of 1914, loc. 1002A, Carnegie Hill waterhole bonebed, Agate Fossil Beds National Monument, Sioux County, Nebraska"
Carnivora - Ursidae	Cephalogale sp.⁶ Cephalogale sp.⁶ Jourdan 1862 bear not discussed in Hunt 1972; at University Quarry according to Hunt 1998a
Artiodactyla - Merycoidodontidae	"Merychyus siouxensis" = Paramerychyus harrisonensis¹² "Merychyus siouxensis" = Paramerychyus harrisonensis¹² Peterson 1907 oreodont presumably includes any of several "Upper Harrison" oreodonts of Peterson 1907; no oreodonts in Hunt's list
Artiodactyla - Palaeomerycidae	Blastomeryx pristinus n. sp.⁴ Blastomeryx pristinus n. sp.⁴ Cook 1934 ruminant specific quarry not indicated
Artiodactyla - Tayassuidae	"Thinohyus siouxensis n. sp." = Stuckyhyus siouxensis¹⁰ "Thinohyus siouxensis n. sp." = Stuckyhyus siouxensis¹⁰ Peterson 1906 peccary "Agate Spring Stock Farm"
Artiodactyla - Entelodontidae	Dinohyus hollandi n. sp. Dinohyus hollandi n. sp. Peterson 1905 even-toed ungulate "D. sp." of Hunt 1985
Artiodactyla - Camelidae	Camelidae indet.⁶ Camelidae indet.⁶ Gray 1821 camel
Perissodactyla - Equidae	Equidae indet.¹, Anchitherium agatense⁵ Equidae indet.¹ Gray 1821 horse Anchitherium agatense⁵ anchitheriine horse from "Agate Springs"; not in Hunt's list
Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae	"Diceratherium arikarense n. sp." = Menoceras arikarense², "Diceratherium cooki n. sp." = Menoceras arikarense, "Diceratherium loomisi n. sp." = Menoceras arikarense³, Diceratherium sp.⁶, Diceratherium niobrarense¹¹ "Diceratherium arikarense n. sp." = Menoceras arikarense² Barbour 1906 rhinoceros "Diceratherium cooki n. sp." = Menoceras arikarense Barbour 1906 rhinoceros see also Prothero and Manning 1987; "M. sp." of Hunt 1985 "Diceratherium loomisi n. sp." = Menoceras arikarense³ Barbour 1906 rhinoceros Diceratherium sp.⁶ Marsh 1875 rhinoceros Diceratherium niobrarense¹¹ Peterson 1906 rhinoceros "Arikareean Quarry A" and "Agate Springs Quarry A"
Perissodactyla - Chalicotheriidae	Moropus elatus Moropus elatus Marsh 1877 chalicothere "M. sp." of Hunt 1985

¹Alroy 2002; ²Barbour 1906; ³Cook 1912; ⁴Cook 1934; ⁵Forsten 1975; ⁶Hunt 1985; ⁷Hunt 1998; ⁸Hunt 2002; ⁹Hunt 2011; ¹⁰Peterson 1906; ¹¹Prothero 2005; ¹²Schultz and Falkenbach 1947; ¹³Wetmore 1930; ¹⁴Wetmore 1933; ¹⁵Wetmore 1958