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