Bone Creek: Barstovian - Clarendonian, Nebraska
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Carpocyon compressus
(Cope 1890)
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| UNSM; strata said to be of Crookston Bridge age | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Merycoidodontidae
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Ustatochoerus medius
(Leidy 1858)
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Schultz and Falkenbach 1941 | |||||||||
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= Merychyus medius
Leidy 1858
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
| recombined as Ustatochoerus medius | ||||||||||
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Ustatochoerus profectus
(Matthew and Cook 1909)
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Schultz and Falkenbach 1941 | |||||||||
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= Merychyus novomexicanus
Frick 1929
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
| invalid subgroup of Ustatochoerus medius | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Nebraska | County: | Brown |
| Coordinates: | 42.7° North, 100.0° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 43.2° North, 97.2° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| *Period: | Tertiary | ||
| Key time interval: | Barstovian - Clarendonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 16.30000 - 9.40000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some genera |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:not clear if this represents a single locality, and some material may be from Lucht Quarry (see) | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 18070 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2000-05-19 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2018-02-05 15:05:27 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2000-05-19 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] | |
| 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] |