Devil's Jump Off: Barstovian, Nebraska

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
informal Hunt ursid barbouri
Hunt 1998
"Devil's Jump Off area"
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Leptocyon vafer (Leidy 1858)
Tedford et al. 2009
Aelurodon mcgrewi Wang et al. 1999
Mammalia - Merycoidodontidae
Ustatochoerus medius (Leidy 1858)
Schultz and Falkenbach 1941
    = Merychyus medius Leidy 1858
Alroy 2002
recombined as Ustatochoerus medius
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Cormohipparion quinni Woodburne 1996
Woodburne 1996
    = Hippotherium quinni Woodburne 1996
Alroy 2002
original and current combination Cormohipparion quinni
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Teleoceras medicornutum Osborn 1904
Prothero 2005
"Top of Devil's Jump Off exposures" and "Devil's Jump Off Quarry" and "Second Canyon above Devil's Jump Off"
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Nebraska County:Cherry
Coordinates: 42.8° North, 100.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.4° North, 97.5° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval:Barstovian
Age range of interval:16.30000 - 12.50000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Valentine Member:Crookston Bridge
Local section:ValAH Local bed:2
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:78 F:AM specimens: Skinner and Johnson 1984
Metadata
Database number:18125
Authorizer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot Enterer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2002-05-15 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:42
Access level:the public Released:2002-05-15 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]
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]
51726 D. R. Prothero. 2005. The Evolution of North American Rhinoceroses. 1-218 [J. Marcot/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]
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]
3755 M. O. Woodburne. 1996. Reappraisal of the Cormohipparion from the Valentine Formation, Nebraska. American Museum Novitates 3163:1-56 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]