Connection Kat Quarry: Clarendonian, Nebraska
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Teleoceras major
Hatcher 1894
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Prothero 2005 | ||||||
Aphelops megalodus
(Cope 1873)
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Prothero 2005 | ||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Calippus cerasinus
(Hulbert 1988)
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Hulbert 1988 | ||||||
Mammalia
- Merycoidodontidae
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Ustatochoerus major
(Leidy 1858)
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= Merychyus major
Leidy 1858
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Alroy 2002 | ||||||
recombined as Ustatochoerus major | |||||||
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, 98.2° 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
Formation: | Ash Hollow | Member: | Merritt Dam |
Local section: | ValAH | Local bed: | 6 |
Local order: | bottom to top |
Lithology and environment
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | some genera |
Taxonomic list comments:43 F:AM specimens: Skinner and Johnson 1984 |
Metadata
Database number: | 18099 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot | Enterer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot |
Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 1992-08-05 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2007-08-25 19:20:36 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
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] |
Secondary references:
6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
1949 | R. C. Hulbert, Jr. 1988. Calippus and Protohippus (Mammalia, Perissodactyla, Equidae) from the Miocene (Barstovian-early Hemphillian) of the Gulf Coastal Plain. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 32(3):221-340 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/R. Hulbert] | |
51726 | D. R. Prothero. 2005. The Evolution of North American Rhinoceroses. 1-218 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot] |