Horse Thief Canyon No. 3 (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Brown County, Nebraska (42.7° N, 100.0° W: paleocoordinates 43.3° N, 96.7° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Devil's Gulch Member (Valentine Formation), Barstovian (16.3 - 12.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. F. Skinner and F. W. Johnson. 1984. Tertiary stratigraphy and the Frick Collection of fossil vertebrates from north-central Nebraska. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 178(3):1-368 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 18205: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 19.05.2000

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Carnivora - Canidae
Carpocyon compressus Cope 1890 bone-crushing dog
said to be from the Devil's Gulch Member, but locality given as "Horsethief Canyon No. 2" (meaning No. 3?)
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equidae indet. Gray 1821 horse
skeleton