Also known as Kilpatrick Pasture Quarry 7; Northwest part of Olcott Hill; Thomson's Hipparion Quarry
Where: Sioux County, Nebraska (42.4° N, 103.8° W: paleocoordinates 42.8° N, 101.4° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Laucomer Member (Snake Creek Formation), Clarendonian (12.5 - 9.4 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: M. F. Skinner, S. M. Skinner, and R. J. Gooris. 1977. Stratigraphy and biostratigraphy of late Cenozoic deposits in central Sioux County, western Nebraska. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 158(5):263-370 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 18222: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 05.08.1992, edited by Jonathan Marcot
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Megalornis pratensis" = Antigone canadensis pratensis8
"Megalornis pratensis" = Antigone canadensis pratensis8 Meyer 1794 sandhill crane "Quarry 7 in the Kilpatrick pasture": 1926 or 1927 A. Thomson collection
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Aramus sp.8 Viellot 1816 limpkin 1927 Thomson collection from "the Pliocene of the Upper Snake Creek beds on Olcott Hill": Thomson spent the 1927 field season collecting at Kilpatrick Quarry, see Skinner et al. 1977 p. 282
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Leptocyon matthewi6 Tedford et al. 2009 canine "Kilpatrick Pasture Quarry 7" and "Kilpatrick Pasture Quarry b."
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Pliohippus pernix3, Protohippus supremus3, Pseudhipparion gratum3, Nannippus penninsulatus5, Hippotherium sp.3
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"Longirostromeryx serpentis n. sp." = Longirostromeryx wellsi
"Longirostromeryx serpentis n. sp." = Longirostromeryx wellsi Matthew 1904 musk deer | |
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