Warbonnet Creek (Chadron): Chadronian, Nebraska

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Parictis gilpini Clark and Guensburg 1972
Chadron Fm., Warbonnet Creek
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
Brontops dispar n. sp. Marsh 1887
Osborn 1929
from Hat Creek, Sioux Co., said by Osborn 1902 to be from the middle beds of the Chadron Formation; two specimens described by Hatcher 1901b, 1901c from "near the base of the Titanotherium beds on Warbonnet Creek, some three miles north of the Brewster and Emmons Ranch" (latter assigned to "Titanotherium dispar"
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Trigonias osborni Lucas 1900
Hatcher 1901
"near the base of the Titanotherium beds... three miles north of the old Brewster and Emmons Ranch, on Warbonnet creek, Sioux County"; repeated by Wood 1927 as "three miles north of Warbonnet Ranch"
Mammalia - Merycoidodontidae
Stenopsochoerus douglasensis Schultz and Falkenbach 1956
Schultz and Falkenbach 1956
    = Miniochoerus chadronensis Schultz and Falkenbach 1956
Alroy 2002
"N. of Harrison" in Chadron Fm.
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Nebraska County:Sioux
Coordinates: 42.4° North, 103.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.8° North, 95.1° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Eocene
Stage: Priabonian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 3
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval: Chadronian
Age range of interval: 37 - 33.9 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Local section:PineR Local bed:1
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Taxonomic list comments:apparently in T33N R56W, i.e., about 18 mi W of the Chadron localities of Ostrander 1985
following records could be from the Chadron, Brule, or Gering: "Merycoidodon" affinis Thorpe 1937 Merycoidodon "culbertsonii" Thorpe 1937: "middle Oligocene" "Phenacocoelus munroensis" Thorpe 1937 "Promerycochoerus" carrikeri Thorpe 1937
Metadata
Also known as:Brewster and Emmons Ranch; Warbonnet Ranch
Database number:17040
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1995-10-18 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:41
Access level:the public Released:1995-10-18 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

1238. J. Clark and T. E. Guensburg. 1972. Arctoid genetic characters as related to the genus Parictis. Fieldiana 26(1):1-71 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
1808 J. B. Hatcher. 1901. Some new and little known fossil vertebrates. Annals of Carnegie Museum 1(1):128-144 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano]
2708 H. F. Osborn. 1929. New Eurasiatic and American proboscideans. American Museum Novitates 393:1-22 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano]
3068 C. B. Schultz and C. H. Falkenbach. 1956. Miniochoerinae and Oreonetinae two new subfamilies of oreodonts. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 109(4):373-482 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]