Republican River (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Red Willow County, Nebraska (40.2° N, 100.5° W: paleocoordinates 40.8° N, 97.3° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Ogallala Group, Barstovian (16.3 - 12.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: P. C. Henshaw. 1942. A Tertiary mammalian fauna from the San Antonio Mountains near Tonopah, Nevada. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 530(5):77-168 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 18341: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002

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Taxonomic list

• Cope collection
Mammalia
 Carnivora - Mustelidae
Brachypsalis hyaenoides n. sp. Cope 1881 mustelid carnivore
of Cope from "Republican River"
 Carnivora - Canidae
Aelurodon mcgrewi Wang et al. 1999 bone-crushing dog