Court House Rock (Gering): Geringian, Nebraska

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Cynodesmus thooides Scott 1893
Court House Rock, on Pumpkin Seed Creek, S of Bridgeport in basal Gering
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Nebraska County:Morrill
Coordinates: 41.7° North, 103.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:42.5° North, 96.6° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
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:Gering
Local section:NPlat 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
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:possibly relevant: Leptauchenia decora Thorpe 1921b: "Court House Rock"
Metadata
Database number:17486
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:1995-10-18 00:00:00 Last modified:2006-09-13 00:34:39
Access level:the public Released:1995-10-18 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

6226. X. Wang. 1994. Phylogenetic systematics of the Hesperocyoninae (Carnivora: Canidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 221:1-207 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]