Tunnel Hill: Harrisonian, Nebraska
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Protomeryx leonardi
Loomis 1911
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Skinner et al. 1968 | |||||||||
recombined as Miotylopus leonardi | ||||||||||
"Monroe Creek-Harrison sequence in the vicinity of the Tunnel Hill locality" (1 measurement) | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Merycoidodontidae
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Merychyus siouxensis
Loomis 1924
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Skinner et al. 1968 | |||||||||
synonym of Paramerychyus harrisonensis | ||||||||||
"vicinity" of Tunnel Hill in the Harrison Fm., but this is a field attribution | ||||||||||
Pseudocyclopidius lullianus
(Thorpe 1921)
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Schultz and Falkenbach 1968 | |||||||||
recombined as Leptauchenia lullianus | ||||||||||
"Pseudocyclopidius lullianus expiratus": "Ledingham Ranch" in supposed "upper Monroe Creek" | ||||||||||
Pithecistes copei
Schultz and Falkenbach 1968
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Schultz and Falkenbach 1968 | |||||||||
synonym of Leptauchenia decora | ||||||||||
"upper part of Monroe Creek Formation... Tunnel Hill locality, Ledingham Ranch" | ||||||||||
Megoreodon hollandi
(Douglass 1907)
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Skinner et al. 1968 | |||||||||
synonym of Megoreodon grandis | ||||||||||
"M. grandis loomisi" of Schultz and Falkenbach 1954; middle of local sequence at Tunnel Hill | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Enhydrocyon pahinsintewakpa
(Macdonald 1963)
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3/4 NW of Ledingham Ranch; Tunnell Hill sensu stricto | ||||||||||
"Mesocyon" temnodon
(Wortman and Matthew 1899)
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Nebraska | County: | southern Sioux |
Coordinates: | 42.4° North, 103.8° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 43.3° North, 98.8° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
*Period: | Tertiary | *Epoch: | Oligocene |
Key time interval: | Harrisonian | ||
Age range of interval: | 24.80000 - 20.43000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | not reported |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | some genera |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Taxonomic list comments:North Platte river drainage status unclear: specimen of Schultz and Falkenbach 1949 tentatively referred to Mesoreodon "cheeki" but also to "M." megalodon; from "Ledingham Ranch" |
Metadata
Database number: | 17704 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 1994-04-30 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2015-12-30 13:52:21 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1994-04-30 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] |
Secondary references:
6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
3069 | C. B. Schultz and C. H. Falkenbach. 1968. The Phylogeny of the Oreodonts. Part 1: Merycoidodontinae, Eporeodontinae, and Leptaucheniinae, Three Subfamilies Of Oreodonts, With an Appendix to the Revision Of The Merycoidodontidae, and Part 2. Summary and Conclusions Concerning the Merycoidodontidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 139:1-498 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] | |
3174 | M. F. Skinner, S. M. Skinner, and R. J. Gooris. 1968. Cenozoic rocks and faunas of Turtle Butte, south-central South Dakota. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 138(7) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju] |