Fat Chance Quarry: Clarendonian, Nebraska
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Teleoceras sp.
Hatcher 1894
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Voorhies 1990 | 5 specimens | |||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Neohipparion occidentale
(Leidy 1856)
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Voorhies 1990 | 1 specimen | |||||
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= cf. Hippotherium sp.
Kaup 1832
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Alroy 2002 | ||||||
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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cf. Procamelus sp.
Leidy 1858
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Voorhies 1990 | 1 specimen | |||||
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cf. Aepycamelus sp.
Macdonald 1956
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Voorhies 1990 | 1 specimen | |||||
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Mammalia
- Merycoidodontidae
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Ustatochoerus major
(Leidy 1858)
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Voorhies 1990 | 1 specimen | |||||
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= Merychyus cf. major
Leidy 1858
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Alroy 2002 | ||||||
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Gomphotheriidae
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Gomphotheriidae indet.
Hay 1922
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Voorhies 1990 | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Nebraska | County: | Cherry |
| Coordinates: | 42.8° North, 100.8° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 43.3° North, 98.2° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5-6 | ||
| *Period: | Tertiary | ||
| Key time interval: | Clarendonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 12.5 - 9.4 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection size: | 9 specimens |
| Museum repositories: | UNSM |
| Taxonomic list comments:NISP 9 | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | UNSM Kp-103 | ||
| Database number: | 18156 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1992-08-05 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-09-28 14:47:07 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 3503. | M. R. Voorhies. 1990. Vertebrate paleontology of the proposed Norden Reservoir Area, Brown, Cherry and Keya Paha counties, Nebraska. Technical Report, Division of Archeological Research, Department of Anthropology, University of Nebraska 82-09 [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] | |
| 3510 | M. R. Voorhies. 1990. Vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Ogallala Group in Nebraska. In T. C. Gustavson (ed.), Geologic Framework and Regional Hydrology: Upper Cenozoic Blackwater Draw and Ogallala Formations, Great Plains 115-151 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] |