Hemingford Quarry 7: Early/Lower Hemingfordian, Nebraska

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Cynarctoides acridens (Barbour and Cook 1914)
Wang et al. 1999
Phlaocyon marslandensis McGrew 1941
Wang et al. 1999
Metatomarctus canavus (Simpson 1932)
Wang et al. 1999
Desmocyon matthewi Wang et al. 1999
Wang et al. 1999
Leptocyon leidyi Tedford et al. 2009
Tedford et al. 2009
Mammalia - Soricidae
Pseudotrimylus blacki n. sp. Martin and Lim 2004
Martin and Lim 2004
(3 measurements)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Priusaulax sp. Korth and Bailey 2006
Korth and Bailey 2006
UNSM 119841
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Nebraska County:Box Butte
Coordinates: 42.2° North, 103.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:42.9° North, 99.2° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Burdigalian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
*Period:Late/Upper Tertiary *Local age/stage:Hemingfordian
Key time interval:Early/Lower Hemingfordian
Age range of interval:18.50000 - 16.30000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Runningwater
Local section:PineR Local bed:16
Local order:bottom to top
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
Collection methods:selective quarrying,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:UNSM
Taxonomic list comments:the small mammal fauna, including the type specimen of Fanimus ultimus, is actually from Quarry 7B (see)
Metadata
Also known as:UNSM Bx-7
Database number:17932
Authorizer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot Enterer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot
Modifier:G. Varnham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2000-05-19 00:00:00 Last modified:2022-05-04 04:52:50
Access level:the public Released:2000-05-19 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

2152.5% 20540W. W. Korth, B. E. Bailey, and R. M. Hunt, Jr. 1990. Geomyoid rodents from the early Hemingfordian (Miocene) of Nebraska. Annals of Carnegie Museum 59(1):25-47 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

55518 W. W. Korth and B. E. Bailey. 2006. Earliest castoridine beaver (Rodentia, Castoridae) from the Late Arikareean (Early Miocene) of Nebraska. Annals of Carnegie Museum 75(4):237-245 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]
31437 L. D. Martin and J.-D. Lim. 2004. New insectivores from the Early Miocene of Nebraska, USA and the Hemingfordian faunal exchange. Mammalian Biology 69(3):202-209 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
51726 D. R. Prothero. 2005. The Evolution of North American Rhinoceroses. 1-218 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]
52058 R. H. Tedford, X. Wang, and B. E. Taylor. 2009. Phylogenetic Systematics of the North American Fossil Caninae (Carnivora: Canidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 325:1-218 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot/G. Lloyd]
3558 X. Wang, R. H. Tedford, and B. E. Taylor. 1999. Phylogenetic systematics of the Borophaginae (Carnivora: Canidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 243:1-392 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]