Humbug Quarry: Early/Lower Barstovian, Nebraska

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Aphelops megalodus (Cope 1873)
Prothero 2005
Teleoceras medicornutum Osborn 1904
Prothero 2005
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Chalicotheriidae
Moropus merriami Holland and Peterson 1913
Coombs 2004
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hypohippus sp. (Leidy 1858)
Mihlbachler et al. 2011
original and current combination Anchitherium (Hypohippus)
Supplemental Table S1
Neohipparion sp. Gidley 1903
Mihlbachler et al. 2011
Supplemental Table S1
Scaphohippus intermontanus (Merriam 1915)
Mihlbachler et al. 2011
Supplemental Table S1
Merychippus insignis Leidy 1856
Mihlbachler et al. 2011
Supplemental Table S1
Acritohippus isonesus (Cope 1889)
Mihlbachler et al. 2011
Supplemental Table S1
Mammalia - Tayassuidae
Hesperhys sp. Douglass 1903
Emry and Eshelman 1998
    = Hesperhys vagrans Douglass 1903
Prothero 2015
Mammalia - Leptomerycidae
Pseudoparablastomeryx scotti (Frick 1937)
Taylor and Webb 1976
Mammalia - Merycoidodontidae
Ticholeptus hypsodus Loomis 1924
    = Ticholeptus zygomaticus Cope 1878
Schultz and Falkenbach 1941
Merychyus relictus (Matthew and Cook 1909)
Schultz and Falkenbach 1947
Brachycrus siouense (Sinclair 1915)
Schultz and Falkenbach 1940
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Pseudaelurus validus Rothwell 2001
Rothwell 2001
F:AM 61834, 61829
Mammalia - Carnivora - Amphicyonidae
Amphicyon sp. Lartet 1836
Hunt 1998
Pliocyon sp. Matthew 1918
Hunt 1998
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Leptocyon leidyi Tedford et al. 2009
Tedford et al. 2009
Osbornodon fricki Wang 1994
Wang 1994
Cynarctoides acridens (Barbour and Cook 1914)
Wang et al. 1999
Microtomarctus conferta (Matthew 1918)
Wang et al. 1999
Paracynarctus sinclairi Wang et al. 1999
Wang et al. 1999
Euoplocyon brachygnathus (Douglass 1903)
Wang et al. 1999
Psalidocyon marianae Wang et al. 1999
Wang et al. 1999
Tomarctus brevirostris Cope 1873
Wang et al. 1999
Tomarctus hippophaga (Matthew and Cook 1909)
Wang et al. 1999
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Nebraska County:Sioux
Coordinates: 42.4° North, 103.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.0° North, 100.6° West
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:Early/Lower Barstovian
Age range of interval:15.97000 - 13.60000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Olcott
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:17955
Authorizer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot Enterer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot
Modifier:G. Varnham Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-02-18 00:00:00 Last modified:2022-04-27 08:17:37
Access level:the public Released:1993-02-18 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

3175. M. F. Skinner, S. M. Skinner, and R. J. Gooris. 1977. Stratigraphy and biostratigraphy of late Cenozoic deposits in central Sioux County, western Nebraska. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 158(5):263-370 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

17216 M. C. Coombs. 2004. Moropus merriami in the early Barstovian Lower Snake Creek fauna of Nebraska, with comments on biogeography of North American chalicotheres. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 285:191-208 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
1446 R. J. Emry and R. E. Eshelman. 1998. The early Hemingfordian (early Miocene) Pollack Farm local fauna; first Tertiary land mammals described from Delaware. Delaware Geological Survey Special Publication 21:153-173 [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]
61396 D. R. Prothero. 2015. Evolution of the Early Miocene Hesperhyine Peccaries. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 67:235-255 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]
52057 T. M. Rothwell. 2001. A Partial Skeleton of Pseudaelurus (Carnivora: Felidae) from the Nambé Member of the Tesuque Formation, Española Basin, New Mexico. American Museum Novitates 3342:1-31 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]
3062 C. B. Schultz and C. H. Falkenbach. 1940. Merycochoerinae, a new subfamily of oreodonts. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 77(5):213-306 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/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]
3064 C. B. Schultz and C. H. Falkenbach. 1947. Merychyinae, a subfamily of oreodonts. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 88(4):157-286 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]
3370 B. E. Taylor and S. D. Webb. 1976. Miocene Leptomerycidae (Artiodactyla, Ruminantia) and their relationships. American Museum Novitates 2596 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
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]
6226 X. Wang. 1994. Phylogenetic systematics of the Hesperocyoninae (Carnivora: Canidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 221:1-207 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
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]