Hay Springs Creek (Upper Harrison): Harrisonian, Nebraska

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Geomyidae
Pleurolicus exiguus n. sp. Korth 1996
level within formation not indicated; SW 1/4 sec 3 T31N R47W (4 measurements)
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Nebraska County:Dawes
Coordinates: 42.7° North, 102.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.5° North, 97.7° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 4-5
*Period:Tertiary *Epoch:Miocene
Key time interval:Harrisonian
Age range of interval:23.10000 - 18.50000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Hemingford Formation:Marsland
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: "Marsland (=upper Harrison) Formation... latest Arikareean"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:AMNH
Metadata
Database number:17791
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2002-05-15 00:00:00 Last modified:2018-02-05 13:51:52
Access level:the public Released:2002-05-15 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
2130. W. W. Korth. 1996. A New Species of Pleurolocus (Rodentia, Geomyidae) from the Early Miocene (Arikareean) of Nebraska. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 16(4):781-784 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Wagner]