Nonpareil Sand Pit: Early/Lower Hemingfordian, Nebraska

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Metatomarctus canavus (Simpson 1932)
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
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Burdigalian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval:Early/Lower Hemingfordian
Age range of interval:20.43000 - 15.97000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Runningwater
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:county assignment based on location of town of Nonpareil
Metadata
Database number:17973
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:G. Varnham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2002-05-15 00:00:00 Last modified:2022-05-04 04:59:49
Access level:the public Released:2002-05-15 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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]