American Museum-Cook Quarry ( of the United States)

Also known as Cook's "Pocket"

Where: Sioux County, Nebraska (42.4° N, 103.8° W: paleocoordinates 43.3° N, 98.8° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• "basal member of Upper Harrison Beds"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying

Primary reference: H. J. Cook. 1908. A new genus of rhinoceros from Sioux County, Nebraska. Nebraska Geological Survey Bulletin 3(6):245-248 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 17744: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 27.09.1993, edited by Jonathan Marcot

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• see Hunt 1985a for geological position

•this is the same as "4 miles northeast of Agate postoffice" according to Hunt 1972

•"Mesocyon venator" is NOT from this site: Stevens 1991
possibly relevant:

• Tomarctus thompsoni from "Three miles northeast of Agate": Cook and Macdonald 1962

• Aletomeryx marshi Frick 1937: "from the Harrison, three miles northeast of Agate"

Mammalia
 Carnivora - Mustelidae
Promartes cf. lepidus1 Matthew 1907 mustelid carnivore
 Carnivora - Amphicyonidae
Cynelos sp.4 Jourdan 1862 bear-dog
omitted by Hunt 1998b
Temnocyon percussor6 Cook 1909 bear-dog
referred specimens
Daphoenodon superbus1 Peterson 1907 bear-dog
Ysengrinia americana5 Wortman 1901 bear-dog
 Carnivora - Canidae
Phlaocyon annectens8 Peterson 1907 bone-crushing dog
Cynarctoides acridens2 Barbour and Cook 1914 bone-crushing dog
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equidae indet.4 Gray 1821 horse
"Parahippus" of 1908 field note
 Perissodactyla - Chalicotheriidae
Moropus elatus3 Marsh 1877 chalicothere
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Rhinocerotidae indet.4 Gray 1821 rhinoceros
 Artiodactyla - Palaeomerycidae
Barbouromeryx trigonocorneus7 Barbour and Schultz 1934 ruminant
"Upper Harrison... about four miles northeast of Agate"