PBDB Collection

West Line Kat Quarry: Clarendonian, Nebraska

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae

	Teleoceras major Hatcher 1894	Prothero 2005

	Aphelops megalodus (Cope 1873)	Prothero 2005
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae

	Calippus cerasinus (Hulbert 1988)	Hulbert 1988

	Protohippus gidleyi Hulbert 1988	Hulbert 1989
	pers. commun.

	Pseudhipparion skinneri Webb and Hulbert 1986	Hulbert 1989
	pers. commun.
Mammalia - Merycoidodontidae

	Ustatochoerus major (Leidy 1858)	Schultz and Falkenbach 1941
	= Merychyus major Leidy 1858	Alroy 2002
	recombined as Ustatochoerus major
Mammalia - Tayassuidae

	Macrogenis sp. Wright 1993	Wright 1983
	new Leptarctus Quarry species
Mammalia - Palaeomerycidae

	Cranioceras granti Frick 1937	Frick 1937
	= Cranioceras unicornis Matthew 1918	Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Gelocidae

	Pseudoceras skinneri Frick 1937	Frick 1937
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae

	Paratomarctus euthos (McGrew 1935)

	Epicyon saevus (Leidy 1858)

	Carpocyon robustus (Green 1948)

	Aelurodon taxoides Hatcher 1894
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

Formation:	Ash Hollow	Member:	Merritt Dam
Local section:	ValAH	Local bed:	6
Local order:	bottom to top

Lithology and environment

Environment:

terrestrial indet.

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:

body

Collection methods and comments

Collection excludes:	some genera
Taxonomic list comments:"about 213" F:AM specimens: Skinner and Johnson 1984

Metadata

Database number:	18458
Authorizer:	J. Alroy, J. Marcot	Enterer:	J. Alroy, J. Marcot
Modifier:	J. Alroy	Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	1992-08-05 00:00:00	Last modified:	2007-08-25 19:20:36
Access level:	the public	Released:	1993-02-18 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]

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]
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]
3773		D. B. Wright. 1983. Later Miocene Tayassuidae (Artiodactyla, Mammalia) of North America. University of Nebraska, M. S. thesis 1-350 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Sepkoski]