Dry Creek Prospect B (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Box Butte County, Nebraska (42.2° N, 103.1° W: paleocoordinates 42.9° N, 99.2° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: basal Red Valley Member (Box Butte Formation), Hemingfordian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: T. Galusha. 1975. Stratigraphy of the Box Butte Formation, Nebraska. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 156(1) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]more details

PaleoDB collection 17896: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.10.1995, edited by Jonathan Marcot

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Taxonomic list

• lower than Prospects A and D in local section
Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Menoceras barbouri1 Wood 1964 rhinoceros
 Carnivora - Canidae
Cynarctoides acridens3 Barbour and Cook 1914 bone-crushing dog
Metatomarctus canavus3 Simpson 1932 bone-crushing dog
Osbornodon iamonensis2 Sellards 1916 canid