Plioceros Site (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

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Merritt Dam Member (Ash Hollow Formation), Clarendonian (13.6 - 10.3 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 18322: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 17.06.2000

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Taxonomic list

• above Mizner Slide: see section 62, p. 344
apparently one specimen only
Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Antilocapridae
Plioceros dehlini n. sp. Frick 1937 pronghorn
see Frick 1937