Also known as UNSM Bw-120
Where: Brown County, Nebraska (42.8° N, 100.1° W: paleocoordinates 43.4° N, 96.8° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Cornell Dam Member (Valentine Formation), Barstovian (16.3 - 12.5 Ma)
• "unnamed member [of Skinner's] of the lowest part of the Valentine" = Cornell Dam
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the UNSM
Collection methods: bulk, surface (float), sieve
• "about two tons of sand" were sifted
Primary reference: J. A. Holman. 1977. The Kuhre Quarry fauna (Upper Miocene, northcentral Nebraska). Michigan Academician 9:459-467 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 18223: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 05.08.1992
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri | |
Ictalurus sp. Rafinesque 1820 catfish | |
Amia sp. Linnaeus 1766 bowfin | |
Lepisosteus sp. Agassiz 1843 gar | |
Reptilia | |
Emydidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 turtle | |
"Geochelone nordensis" = Hesperotestudo orthopygia, "Geochelone orthopygia" = Geochelone (Hesperotestudo) orthopygia
"Geochelone nordensis" = Hesperotestudo orthopygia Cope 1878 turtle
"Geochelone orthopygia" = Geochelone (Hesperotestudo) orthopygia Cope 1878 turtle | |
Mammalia | |
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Camelidae indet. Gray 1821 camel | |
Heteromyidae indet. Gray 1868 rodent | |
Amphibia | |
Rana cf. pipiens Schreber 1782 Northern leopard frog |