Kilpatrick Quarry (Miocene of the United States)

Also known as Kilpatrick Pasture Quarry 7

Where: Sioux County, Nebraska (42.4° N, 103.8° W: paleocoordinates 42.9° N, 101.2° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Laucomer Member (Snake Creek Formation), Clarendonian (13.6 - 10.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

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

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Taxonomic list

• equids: Hulbert 1989 pers. commun.
Aves
 Gruiformes - Aramidae
Aramus sp.9 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
 Gruiformes - Gruidae
"Megalornis pratensis" = Antigone canadensis pratensis9
"Megalornis pratensis" = Antigone canadensis pratensis9 Meyer 1794 sandhill crane
"Quarry 7 in the Kilpatrick pasture": 1926 or 1927 A. Thomson collection
Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Gomphotheriidae indet.1 Hay 1922 gomphothere
Gomphotherium sp.1 Burmeister 1837 gomphothere
 Carnivora - Canidae
Cynarctus crucidens8 Barbour and Cook 1914 bone-crushing dog
Aelurodon taxoides8 Hatcher 1894 bone-crushing dog
"Quarry 7, Kilpatrick Pasture"
Epicyon saevus2 Leidy 1858 bone-crushing dog
Epicyon haydeni8 Leidy 1858 bone-crushing dog
Leptocyon matthewi7 Tedford et al. 2009 canine
"Kilpatrick Pasture Quarry 7" and "Kilpatrick Pasture Quarry b."
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Protohippus supremus4 Leidy 1869 horse
pers. commun.
Pliohippus pernix4 Marsh 1874 horse
pers. commun.
Pseudhipparion gratum4 Leidy 1869 hipparionine horse
pers. commun.
Hippotherium sp.4 Kaup 1832 hipparionine horse
Nannippus sp.4 Matthew 1926 hipparionine horse
pers. commun.: "A"
Acritohippus isonesus5 Cope 1889 horse
Supplemental Table S1
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Teleoceras major6 Hatcher 1894 rhinoceros
"Kilpatrick Ranch"
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Camelidae indet.1 Gray 1821 camel
 Artiodactyla - Moschidae
Longirostromeryx wellsi3 Matthew 1904 musk deer
 Rodentia - Castoridae
Eucastor cf. tortus Leidy 1858 beaver
described by Stirton 1935