Burge Quarry: Barstovian - Clarendonian, Nebraska

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Hemicyon sp. Lartet 1851
    = informal Hunt ursid barbouri
Hunt 1998
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Monosaulax sp. Stirton 1935
Evander 1999
Eucastor sp. Allen 1877
Mammalia - Rodentia - Mylagaulidae
Mylagaulus sp. Cope 1878
    = Ceratogaulus cf. rhinocerus Matthew 1902
Korth 2000
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Hypolagus sp. Dice 1917
    = Archaeolaginae indet.
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Aphelops megalodus (Cope 1873)
Prothero 2005
Teleoceras sp. Hatcher 1894
Skinner et al. 1968
AMNH specimen
    = Teleoceras medicornutum Osborn 1904
Prothero 2005
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hypohippus affinis (Leidy 1858)
Merychippus cf. insignis Leidy 1856
    = Hipparionini indet. Quinn 1955
Alroy 2002
Hippotherium sp. Kaup 1832
two skulls measured at AMNH: JA pers. obs.
Pseudhipparion retrusum (Cope 1889)
Neohipparion cf. coloradense (Osborn 1918)
    = Cormohipparion merriami Woodburne 2007
Woodburne 2007
Cormohipparion johnsoni n. sp. Woodburne 2007
Woodburne 2007
"Merychippus" cf. coloradense (Osborn 1918)
Protohippus supremus Leidy 1869
Pliohippus pernix Marsh 1874
Mammalia - Tayassuidae
Prosthennops niobrarensis Colbert 1935
recombined as Colbertchoerus niobrarensis
see also Wright and Eshelman 1987; Wright 1993
Mammalia - Camelidae
Protolabis sp. Cope 1876
Aepycamelus sp. Macdonald 1956
Procamelus grandis Gregory 1939
Mammalia - Moschidae
Longirostromeryx wellsi (Matthew 1904)
see also Frick 1937
Mammalia - Palaeomerycidae
Cranioceras unicornis Matthew 1918
see also Frick 1937 (1 measurement)
Mammalia - Antilocapridae
Cosoryx furcatus Leidy 1869
see also Frick 1937
Cosoryx (Paracosoryx) burgensis n. sp. Frick 1937
Frick 1937
synonym of Cosoryx furcatus
Mammalia - Merycoidodontidae
Ustatochoerus medius (Leidy 1858)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Amphicyonidae
Pseudocyon sp. Lartet 1851
Hunt 1998
Ischyrocyon gidleyi (Matthew 1902)
confirmed by Hunt 1998b
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Brachypsalis sp. Cope 1890
    = Mustelidae indet. Fischer 1817
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Leptocyon vafer (Leidy 1858)
Tedford et al. 2009
Carpocyon webbi Wang et al. 1999
Wang et al. 1999
Tomarctus euthos (McGrew 1935)
recombined as Paratomarctus euthos
Aelurodon taxoides Hatcher 1894
    = Aelurodon ferox Leidy 1858
Wang et al. 1999
Aelurodon stirtoni (Wang et al. 1999)
Wang et al. 1999
F:AM specimens; UCMP type also accidentally listed here by Webb, but elsewhere in the text correctly placed at Fence Line (see)
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Gomphotherium productum (Cope 1874)
    = Gomphotherium willistoni Barbour 1914
Alroy 2002
synonym of Trilophodon osborni
according to Tobien 1973, but clearly G. willistoni in light of his discussion and of Voorhies 1990
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Nebraska County:Cherry
Coordinates: 42.8° North, 100.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.3° North, 98.0° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval:Barstovian - Clarendonian
Age range of interval:15.97000 - 10.30000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Valentine Member:Burge
Local section:ValAH Local bed:4
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:UCMP
Taxonomic list comments:see Wade Quarry for discussion of Davis Ash
ignore list of Voorhies 1990, which is a composite
originally described by Stirton and McGrew 1935
3000 F:AM specimens, 23 UNSM specimens, 52 post-McGrew UCMP specimens: Skinner and Johnson 1984; because Webb's material is from the UCMP, these figures are not useable
"Ustatochoerus major" Schultz and Falkenbach 1941: "N. and E. of Burge Post Office"
Metadata
Also known as:UCMP V-3312
Database number:18077
Authorizer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot Enterer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot
Modifier:B. Allen Research group:vertebrate
Created:1992-08-05 00:00:00 Last modified:2023-07-29 09:41:49
Access level:the public Released:1992-08-05 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
5661ETE 1416J. D. Bryant, W. J. Showers, B. Genna and P. N. Froelich. 1993. A tale of two quarries: inferring taphonomic history from the oxygen istopic composition of fossil phosphate. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 13:27A [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Uhen]
1467 R. L. Evander. 1999. Rodents and lagomorphs (Mammalia) from the Railway Quarries local fauna (Miocene, Barstovian) of Nebraska. Paludicola 2(3):240-256 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
6222 C. Frick. 1937. Horned ruminants of North America. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 69:1-669 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
1976 R. M. Hunt, Jr. 1998. Ursidae. In C. M. Janis, K. M. Scott, and L. L. Jacobs (eds.), Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America 1:174-195 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
1977 R. M. Hunt, Jr. 1998. Amphicyonidae. 196-227 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
2143 W. W. Korth. 2000. Review of Miocene (Hemingfordian to Clarendonian) mylagaulid rodents (Mammalia) from Nebraska. Annals of Carnegie Museum 69(4):227-280 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]
51726 D. R. Prothero. 2005. The Evolution of North American Rhinoceroses. 1-218 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]
3077 C. B. Schultz, M. Schultz, and L. D. Martin. 1970. A new Tribe of Saber-toothed cats (Barbourofelini) from the Pliocene of North America. Bulletin of the Nebraska State Museum 9(1):1-31 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
3174 M. F. Skinner, S. M. Skinner, and R. J. Gooris. 1968. Cenozoic rocks and faunas of Turtle Butte, south-central South Dakota. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 138(7) [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]
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]
45368 M. O. Woodburne. 2007. Phyletic diversification of the Cormohipparion occidentale complex (Mammalia; Perissodactyla, Equidae), Late Miocene, North America, and the origin of the Old World Hippotherium datum. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 306(1):1-138 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]