Rocky Ford Quarry (Miocene of the United States)

Also known as UNSM Cr-120; Rockford Site; Tunnel Rock

Where: Cherry County, Nebraska (42.8° N, 100.8° W: paleocoordinates 43.3° N, 97.7° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: M. R. Voorhies. 1990. Vertebrate paleontology of the proposed Norden Reservoir Area, Brown, Cherry and Keya Paha counties, Nebraska. Technical Report, Division of Archeological Research, Department of Anthropology, University of Nebraska 82-09 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

PaleoDB collection 18350: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 05.08.1992

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Taxonomic list

• also an F:AM site
not clear if this is in the Cornell Dam or Crookston Bridge: Skinner and Johnson 1984 p. 263
NISP 5
Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
"Gomphotherium willistoni" = Trilophodon osborni1
"Gomphotherium willistoni" = Trilophodon osborni1 Barbour 1916 gomphothere
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equidae indet.2 Gray 1821 horse
 Artiodactyla - Antilocapridae
Merycodontinae indet.1 Matthew 1904 pronghorn
 Theriamorpha - Talpidae
Talpidae indet.2 Fischer de Waldheim 1817 mole
 Rodentia - Mylagaulidae
Mylagaulidae indet.1 Cope 1881 rodent
 Rodentia - Heteromyidae
Mioheteromys sp.1 Korth 1997 rodent
 Rodentia - Geomyidae
Geomyidae indet.2 Bonaparte 1845 pocket gopher