Above Wagner Quarry: Geringian, Nebraska

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Merycoidodontidae
Leptaucheniinae indet. Schultz and Falkenbach 1940
Mammalia - Hypertragulidae
Nanotragulus sp. Lull 1922
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Castoridae indet. Gray 1821
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Nebraska County:Dawes
Coordinates: 42.8° North, 103.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.6° North, 96.5° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Oligocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 4
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval: Geringian
Age range of interval: 29.5 - 24.7 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:probably Gering
Local section:PineR Local bed:11
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:fluvial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:17440
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:J. Marcot Research group:vertebrate
Created:1995-03-26 00:00:00 Last modified:2023-10-19 17:25:16
Access level:the public Released:1995-03-26 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

2417. J. E. Martin and R. M. Hunt, Jr. 1985. Geological and paleontological road log from Pine Ridge, South Dakota, through the Agate Fossil Beds National Monument, to the South Dakota-Nebraska border north of Crawford. In J. E. Martin (ed.), Dakoterra 2(2):61-98 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]