PBDB Collection

Wood's Canyon Quarry (Miocene of the United States)

Also known as Woods Canyon

Where: Dawes County, Nebraska (42.8° N, 103.1° W: paleocoordinates 43.5° N, 99.2° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Runningwater Formation, Early/Lower Hemingfordian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: X. Wang. 1994. Phylogenetic systematics of the Hesperocyoninae (Carnivora: Canidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 221:1-207 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 18021: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002

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Taxonomic list

• SW 1/4 sec 27 T31N R47W: Wang 1994

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Mammalia
Carnivora - Canidae	Ectopocynus simplicidens n. sp., Cynarctoides emryi³, Cynarctoides acridens³ Ectopocynus simplicidens n. sp. Wang 1994 canid Wood's Canyon Quarry Cynarctoides emryi³ Wang et al. 1999 bone-crushing dog Cynarctoides acridens³ Barbour and Cook 1914 bone-crushing dog
Artiodactyla - Merycoidodontidae	Merychyus elegans², Merycochoerus sp.¹ Merychyus elegans² Leidy 1858 oreodont Wood's Canyon Merycochoerus sp.¹ Leidy 1858 oreodont Wood's Canyon

¹Schultz and Falkenbach 1940; ²Schultz and Falkenbach 1947; ³Wang et al. 1999