PBDB Collection

Little Beaver A: Barstovian, Nebraska

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae

	Monosaulax sp. Stirton 1935
Mammalia - Lagomorpha

	Lagomorpha indet. Brandt 1885
Mammalia - Antilocapridae

	Merycodus sp. Leidy 1854
	= Merycodontinae indet. Matthew 1904	Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae

	Hypohippus affinis (Leidy 1858)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae

	Leptocyon vafer (Leidy 1858)
see common names

Geography

Country:	United States	State/province:	Nebraska	County:	Cherry
Coordinates:	42.8° North, 100.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	46.0° North, 94.1° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:	based on political unit
Geographic resolution:	small collection

Time

Period:	Neogene	Epoch:	Miocene
10 m.y. bin:	Cenozoic 5
*Period:	Tertiary
Key time interval:	Barstovian
Age range of interval:	16.3 - 12.5 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields

Stratigraphy

Formation:	Valentine	Member:	Crookston Bridge
Local section:	ValAH	Local bed:	2
Local order:	bottom to top

Lithology and environment

Environment:

terrestrial indet.

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:

body

Collection methods and comments

Museum repositories:	UCMP
Taxonomic list comments:see also Webb 1969a

Metadata

Also known as:	UCMP V-336
Database number:	18232
Authorizer:	J. Alroy	Enterer:	J. Alroy
Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	1995-03-26 00:00:00	Last modified:	2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:	the public	Released:	1995-03-26 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:	CC0

Reference information

Primary reference:

3239.

R. A. Stirton and P. O. McGrew. 1935. A Preliminary Notice on the Miocene and Pliocene Mammalian Faunas Near Valentine, Nebraska. American Journal of Science 29(170):125-132 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]

Secondary references:

6294

J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]