Angus: Irvingtonian, Nebraska

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Synaptomys sp. Baird 1858
    = Synaptomys cooperi Baird 1858
Koenigswald and Martin 1984
Microtus ochrogaster (Wagner 1842)
    = Pedomys ochrogaster Wagner 1842
Alroy 2002
Ondatra nebrascensis (Hollister 1911)
    = Ondatra zibethicus Linnaeus 1766
Alroy 2002
Peromyscus sp. Gloger 1841
Onychomys cf. leucogaster (Wied-Neuwied 1841)
Reithrodontomys sp. Giglioli 1874
Neotoma sp. Say and Ord 1825
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Goodwin 1995
Eutamias sp. Trouessart 1880
    = Neotamias sp. Howell 1929
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Rodentia - Heteromyidae
Dipodomys sp. Gray 1841
    = Chaetodipus hispidus Baird 1858
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Rodentia - Geomyidae
Mammalia - Rodentia - Zapodidae
Zapus hudsonius (Zimmermann 1780)
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Sylvilagus sp. Gray 1867
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Tayassuidae
Mylohyus sp. Cope 1869
Mammalia - Cervidae
Odocoileus sp. Rafinesque 1832
Mammalia - Antilocapridae
Capromeryx furcifer Matthew 1902
Mammalia - Camelidae
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Vulpes velox (Say 1823)
probably OK: Anderson 1984
Nowak 1979
Canis latrans Say 1823
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Mustela frenata Lichtenstein 1831
Taxidea taxus (Schreber 1778)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mephitidae
Mephitis mephitis (Schreber 1776)
Mammalia - Talpidae
Mammalia - Soricidae
confirmed by Jones et al. 1984
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Mammalia - Mylodontidae
Paramylodon sp. Brown 1903
    = Paramylodon harlani Owen 1840
McDonald 1995
Mammalia - Chiroptera
Chiroptera indet. Blumenbach 1779
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Nebraska County:Nuckolls
Coordinates: 40.2° North, 98.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.4° North, 97.7° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Quaternary Epoch: Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Irvingtonian
Age range of interval: 1.4 - 0.21 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Museum repositories:UNSM
Metadata
Also known as:UNSM No-101
Database number:20143
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-02-18 00:00:00 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:1993-02-18 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
2419. L. D. Martin. 1969. University of Nebraska MS thesis [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
1685 H. T. Goodwin. 1995. Systematic revision of fossil prairie dogs with descriptions of two new species. University of Kansas Natural History Museum Miscellaneous Publications 86:1-38 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
2093 W. v. Koenigswald and L. D. Martin. 1984. Revision of the Fossil and Recent Lemminae (Rodentia, Mammalia). In R. M. Mengle (ed.), Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication 9:122-137 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
2499 H. G. McDonald. 1995. Gravigrade xenarthrans from the early Pleistocene Leisey Shell Pit 1A, Hillsborough County, Florida. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 37(11) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
2673 R. M. Nowak. 1979. North American Quaternary Canis. Monograph of the Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas 6:1-154 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]