UNSM Sx-6 (Orella D): Orellan, Nebraska

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia
Diplolophus insolens Troxell 1923
Barbour and Stout 1939
"Orella C3" = D according to Schultz and Stout 1955
Mammalia - Rodentia - Eomyidae
Adjidaumo minutus (Cope 1873)
Orella D
Mammalia - Merycoidodontidae
Genetochoerus norbeckensis Schultz and Falkenbach 1968
Stevens and Stevens 1996
    = Merycoidodon major Leidy 1853
Alroy 2002
replaces ID of Schultz and Falkenbach 1968; "Brule Zone B"
Miniochoerus helprini (Schultz and Falkenbach 1956)
Schultz and Falkenbach 1956
    = Miniochoerus starkensis Schultz and Falkenbach 1956
Alroy 2002
"Brule Zone B"
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Nebraska County:Sioux
Coordinates: 42.4° North, 103.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.6° North, 95.7° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Oligocene
Stage:Rupelian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 4
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval:Orellan
Age range of interval:33.90000 - 31.80000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Brule Member:Orella D
Local section:PineR Local bed:5
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Museum repositories:UNSM
Taxonomic list comments:"Oligospermophilus douglassi" Korth 1987: "Orella C or D"
Metadata
Database number:17222
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1996-08-05 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:42
Access level:the public Released:1996-08-05 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

2112. W. W. Korth. 1989. Geomyoid rodents (Mammalia) from the Orellan (middle Oligocene) of Nebraska,. Los Angeles Museum of History, Science Series 33:31-46 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
1012 E. H. Barbour and T. M. Stout. 1939. The White River Oligocene rodent Diplolphus. Bulletin of the Nebraska State Museum 2(3):29-36 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
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]
6270 M. S. Stevens and J. B. Stevens. 1996. Merycoidodontinae and Miniochoerinae. In D. R. Prothero and R. J. Emry (eds.), The Terrestrial Eocene-Oligocene Transition in North America 498-573 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]