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
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 18447: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 05.08.1992, edited by Jonathan Marcot
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
164 F:AM specimens: Skinner and Johnson 1984
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Barbourofelis morrisi Schultz et al. 1970 false sabre-tooth | |
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"Merychyus novomexicanus" = Ustatochoerus medius novomexicanus1
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Skinnerhyus shermerorum5 Prothero and Pollen 2013 peccary Machaerodus Quarry form; species "A" of Wright 1983
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Tapirus johnsoni6 Schultz et al. 1975 tapir unnamed and unnumbered UNSM quarry that almost certainly is this locality based on coordinates and stratigraphy
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