Also known as Eastern Runningwater Fauna
Where: Sheridan County, Nebraska (42.7° N, 102.1° W: paleocoordinates 43.4° N, 98.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Runningwater Formation, Early/Lower Hemingfordian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)
• "early Hemingfordian"; "mid." part of formation
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial; sandstone and conglomerate
Size class: mesofossils
Reposited in the UNSM
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
• "Most of the local faunas listed are the result of test-screening sand and gravel lenses and sorting between 45 and 136 kg of concentrate" (apparently at each site)
Primary reference: B. E. Bailey. 2004. Biostratigraphy and biochronology of early Arikareean through late Hemingfordian small mammal faunas from the Nebraska Panhandle and adjacent areas. Paludicola 4(3):81-113 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 69915: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 09.03.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Mesoscalops scopelotemos Reed 1960 placental | |
Mesogaulus paniensis Matthew 1902 rodent | |
Harrymys magnus Wood 1932 rodent
Proheteromys sp. Wood 1932 rodent
Schizodontomys amnicolus Korth et al. 1990 rodent | |
Oreolagus nebrascensis McGrew 1941 pika | |
Archaeolagus sp. Dice 1917 rabbit |