Also known as RIS; Wyman Creek
Where: Keya Paha County, Nebraska (42.8° N, 99.6° W: paleocoordinates 43.1° N, 97.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Hemphillian (10.3 - 4.9 Ma)
• unnamed formation above the Ash Hollow and below the Long Pine
Environment/lithology: "channel"; unlithified sandstone and unlithified conglomerate
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
• "15,000 identifiable macro- and microfossil specimens... intensive dry screening"
Primary reference: S. G. Tucker. 2003. Carnivores and microtine-like rodents from a new late Miocene (Hemphillian) locality in north-central Nebraska. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23(3):105A [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 35430: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 12.12.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Eucyon davisi Merriam 1911 canine
Vulpes stenognathus Savage 1941 fox
Carpocyon limosus Webb 1969 bone-crushing dog | |
Martinogale alveodens Hall 1930 skunk
Pliogale furlongi Merriam 1911 skunk | |
Pliotaxidea nevadensis Butterworth 1916 badger | |
Machairodus sp. Kaup 1833 cat | |
Goniodontomys disjunctus Wilson 1937 rodent
Prosomys mimus Shotwell 1956 rodent |