Merritt Dam Type Section (Miocene of the United States)
Where: Cherry County, Nebraska (42.8° N, 100.8° W: paleocoordinates 43.3° N, 98.2° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Merritt Dam Member (Ash Hollow Formation), Clarendonian (12.5 - 9.4 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
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 18257: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 05.08.1992
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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? Tapirus johnsoni Schultz et al. 1975 tapir | |
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Hippotherium sp. Kaup 1832 hipparionine horse | |
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Macrogenis crassigenis Matthew and Gidley 1904 peccary | |
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Hemiauchenia sp. Gervais and Ameghino 1880 camel | |
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Mylagaulidae indet. Cope 1881 rodent | |