Beaver Quarry: Clarendonian, Oklahoma
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Procyonidae
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Procyonidae indet.
Gray 1825
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| "? Bassariscus" | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Canidae indet.
Fischer de Waldheim 1817
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Pseudhipparion gratum
(Leidy 1869)
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Webb 1969 | |||||||||
| DUPLICATE REF 3564 or 3565 | ||||||||||
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Hipparion tehonense
(Merriam 1916)
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Hulbert 1989 | |||||||||
| recombined as Hipparion gratum tehonense | ||||||||||
| pers. commun. | ||||||||||
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Neohipparion cf. coloradense
(Osborn 1918)
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= Hippotherium sp.
Kaup 1832
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
| "N. occidentale" of Webb 1969; "Nannippus" and "Neohipparion" of Forsten 1975 | ||||||||||
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Calippus martini n. sp.
Hesse 1936
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Calippus regulus
Johnston 1937
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Hulbert 1989 | |||||||||
| pers. commun. | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Merycoidodontidae
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Ustatochoerus profectus
(Matthew and Cook 1909)
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= Merychyus novomexicanus
Frick 1929
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Webb 1969 | |||||||||
| invalid subgroup of Ustatochoerus medius | ||||||||||
| but see Voorhies 1985 DUPLICATE REF 3564 or 3565 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Tayassuidae
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Prosthennops sp.
Matthew and Gidley 1904
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= Tayassuinae indet.
Palmer 1897
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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? Alticamelus sp.
Matthew 1901
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= ? Aepycamelus sp.
Macdonald 1956
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
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Cervidae indet.
Gray 1821
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= Ruminantia indet.
Scopoli 1777
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
| - just an astragulus | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Mylagaulidae
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Mylagaulus sp.
Cope 1878
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= Mylagaulidae indet.
Cope 1881
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Castoridae
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Eucastor planus n. sp.
Stirton 1935
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| recombined as Nothodipoides planus | ||||||||||
| see Stirton 1935 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Oklahoma | County: | Beaver |
| Coordinates: | 36.8° North, 100.5° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 37.2° North, 98.0° 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
| Taxonomic list comments:isolated specimen of Cosoryx cf. cerroensis reported by Hibbard 1951c is from quite far to the east of all of Hesse's localities |
Metadata
| Also known as: | UCMP V-3515; Laverne | ||
| Database number: | 18045 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1992-08-05 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2009-12-20 13:08:20 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 1831. | C. J. Hesse. 1936. Lower Pliocene Vertebrate Fossils from the Ogallala Formation (Lavern Zone) of Beaver County, Oklahoma. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 476(1):47-72 [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] | |
| 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] | |
| 3564 | S. D. Webb. 1969. The Burge and Minnechaduza Clarendonian Mammalian Faunas of North-Central Nebraska. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 78:1-191 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] |