Midway Quarry: Clarendonian, Nebraska
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Amphicyonidae
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Pseudocyon sp.
Lartet 1851
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Hunt 1998 | |||||||||
| "Midway Quarry zone" | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Aelurodon ferox
Leidy 1858
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Wang et al. 1999 | |||||||||
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Carpocyon webbi n. sp.
Wang et al. 1999
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Wang et al. 1999 | |||||||||
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Cynarctus voorhiesi
Wang et al. 1999
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Wang et al. 1999 | |||||||||
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Leptocyon vafer
(Leidy 1858)
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Tedford et al. 2009 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Merychippus coloradense
(Osborn 1918)
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Mihlbachler et al. 2011 | |||||||||
| Supplemental Table S1 | ||||||||||
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Cormohipparion merriami
Woodburne 2007
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Woodburne 2007 | |||||||||
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Pseudhipparion retrusum
(Cope 1889)
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Hulbert 1989 | |||||||||
| pers. commun. | ||||||||||
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Cormohipparion sp.
Skinner and MacFadden 1977
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Skinner and MacFadden 1977 | |||||||||
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= Hippotherium sp.
Kaup 1832
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Protohippus supremus
Leidy 1869
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Hulbert 1988 | |||||||||
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Pliohippus pernix
Marsh 1874
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Hulbert 1989 | |||||||||
| pers. commun. | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Teleoceras medicornutum
Osborn 1904
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Prothero 2005 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Merycoidodontidae
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Ustatochoerus medius
(Leidy 1858)
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Schultz and Falkenbach 1941 | |||||||||
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= Merychyus medius
Leidy 1858
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
| recombined as Ustatochoerus medius | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Moschidae
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Blastomeryx gemmifer
(Cope 1874)
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Frick 1937 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Antilocapridae
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Cosoryx furcatus
Leidy 1869
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Frick 1937 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Palaeomerycidae
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Cranioceras mefferdi
Frick 1937
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Frick 1937 | |||||||||
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= Cranioceras unicornis
Matthew 1918
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Mylagaulidae
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Ceratogaulus cf. rhinocerus
Matthew 1902
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| see common names | ||||||||||
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: | 12.50000 - 9.40000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some genera |
| Taxonomic list comments:737 F:AM specimens: Skinner and Johnson 1984 | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 18260 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot | Enterer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1992-08-05 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-06-03 03:27:42 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 2143. | W. W. Korth. 2000. Review of Miocene (Hemingfordian to Clarendonian) mylagaulid rodents (Mammalia) from Nebraska. Annals of Carnegie Museum 69(4):227-280 [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] | |
| 6222 | C. Frick. 1937. Horned ruminants of North America. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 69:1-669 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] | |
| 1949 | R. C. Hulbert, Jr. 1988. Calippus and Protohippus (Mammalia, Perissodactyla, Equidae) from the Miocene (Barstovian-early Hemphillian) of the Gulf Coastal Plain. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 32(3):221-340 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/R. Hulbert] | |
| 1952 | R. C. Hulbert, Jr. 1989. Phylogenetic Interrelationships and Evolution of North American Late Equidae. In D. R. Prothero and R. M. Schoch (eds.), The Evolution of Perissodactyls [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] | |
| 1977 | R. M. Hunt, Jr. 1998. Amphicyonidae. 196-227 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
| 61275 | M. C. Mihlbachler, F. Rivals, N. Solounias and G. M. Semprebon. 2011. Dietary Change and Evolution of Horses in North America. Science 331:1178-1181 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot] | |
| 51726 | D. R. Prothero. 2005. The Evolution of North American Rhinoceroses. 1-218 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot] | |
| 3063 | C. B. Schultz and C. H. Falkenbach. 1941. Ticholeptinae, a new subfamily of oreodonts. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 79(1):1-105 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] | |
| 6240 | M. F. Skinner and B. J. MacFadden. 1977. Cormohipparion n. gen. (Mammalia, Equidae) from the North American Miocene (Barstovian-Clarendonian). Journal of Paleontology 51(5):912-926 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
| 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] | |
| 45368 | M. O. Woodburne. 2007. Phyletic diversification of the Cormohipparion occidentale complex (Mammalia; Perissodactyla, Equidae), Late Miocene, North America, and the origin of the Old World Hippotherium datum. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 306(1):1-138 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner] |