Platybelodon Quarry (Miocene of the United States)

Also known as UNSM Cr-22

Where: Cherry County, Nebraska (42.8° N, 100.8° W: paleocoordinates 43.3° N, 98.2° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Merritt Dam Member (Ash Hollow Formation), Clarendonian (12.5 - 9.4 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Reposited in the UNSM

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 18321: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 05.08.1992, edited by Jonathan Marcot

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• "at least 16" (UNSM) and "about 12" (F:AM) specimens

horse specimens are probably specifically determinate
Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
"Torynobelodon barnumbrowni n. sp." = Platybelodon barnumbrowni
"Torynobelodon barnumbrowni n. sp." = Platybelodon barnumbrowni Barbour 1931 gomphothere
 Carnivora - Canidae
Leptocyon matthewi3 Tedford et al. 2009 canine
"from the talus of high channel with which Platybelodon bar- numbrowni occurred, west side of Snake River about 1 mile below falls"
Carpocyon robustus4 Green 1948 bone-crushing dog
Aelurodon taxoides4 Hatcher 1894 bone-crushing dog
 Artiodactyla - Gelocidae
"Pseudoceras wilsoni" = Pseudoceras skinneri
"Pseudoceras wilsoni" = Pseudoceras skinneri Frick 1937 ruminant
specimen of Frick 1937 from "Snake River, Equivalent af Xmas Quarry Zone"
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Teleoceras major2 Hatcher 1894 rhinoceros
"Platybelodon Marl"
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equidae indet. Gray 1821 horse
Reptilia
 Testudines - Emydidae
cf. Emydidae indet.1 Rafinesque 1815 turtle