Pepper Creek (Miocene of the United States)
Also known as Site 2 Prospect
Where: Dawes County, Nebraska (42.8° N, 103.1° W: paleocoordinates 43.5° N, 99.2° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Hemingfordian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Primary reference: W. W. Korth. 1997. A new subfamily of primitive pocket mice (Rodentia, Heteromyidae) from the middle Tertiary of North America. Paludicola 1(2):33-66 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details
PaleoDB collection 17979: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993
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Taxonomic list
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Tomarctus hippophaga4 Matthew and Cook 1909 bone-crushing dog "Sand Canyon Formation... School House Prospect, Pepper Creek"
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Tylocephalonyx skinneri2 Coombs 1979 chalicothere "post-Runningwater, pre-Sheep Creek equivalent beds at Site 2 Prospect, Pepper Creek"; this tends to imply the Box Butte Fm.
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Peridiomys rusticus Matthew 1924 rodent "Sand Canyon Beds... NW 1/4, sec. 18, T29N, R47W, Dawes County"; this is not at Sand Canyon Quarry but instead at about the midpoint of Pepper Creek; if correct, this is from a unit overlying the Box Butte Fm. relevant: Metatomarctus canavus Wang et al. 1999: said to be the Runningwater Formation
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