Kat Quarry: Clarendonian, Nebraska

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Carnivora - Nimravidae
Barbourofelis sp. Schultz et al. 1970
Mammalia - Carnivora - Amphicyonidae
Pseudocyon sp. Lartet 1851
Hunt 1998
"Kat Quarry horizon"
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Cynarctus crucidens Barbour and Cook 1914
Wang et al. 1999
Aelurodon taxoides Hatcher 1894
Wang et al. 1999
also Kat Quarry Channel
Epicyon haydeni (Leidy 1858)
Baskin 1998
confirmed by Wang et al. 1999
Leptocyon matthewi Tedford et al. 2009
Tedford et al. 2009
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hypohippus sp. (Leidy 1858)
Hussain 1975
original and current combination Anchitherium (Hypohippus)
Calippus cerasinus (Hulbert 1988)
Hulbert 1988
Cormohipparion occidentale (Leidy 1856)
Woodburne 2007
Pseudhipparion skinneri Webb and Hulbert 1986
Hulbert 1989
pers. commun.
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Teleoceras major Hatcher 1894
Prothero 2005
Aphelops megalodus (Cope 1873)
Prothero 2005
Mammalia - Camelidae
Pleiolama mckennai n. sp. Webb and Meachen 2004
Webb and Meachen 2004
Mammalia - Merycoidodontidae
Ustatochoerus major (Leidy 1858)
Schultz and Falkenbach 1941
    = Merychyus major Leidy 1858
Alroy 2002
recombined as Ustatochoerus major
Mammalia - Tayassuidae
Tayassuidae indet. Palmer 1897
Wright 1983
new species "A"
    = Skinnerhyus shermerorum Prothero and Pollen 2013
Prothero and Pollen 2013
Mammalia - Gelocidae
Pseudoceras skinneri Frick 1937
Frick 1937
Kat Quarry sensu stricto
Mammalia - Antilocapridae
Plioceros floblairi Frick 1937
Frick 1937
"Kat Quarry channel, 1931"; postcrania
Mammalia - Palaeomerycidae
Cranioceras granti Frick 1937
Frick 1937
    = Cranioceras unicornis Matthew 1918
Alroy 2002
"Kat Quarry Channel"; includes 1931 material; see also Webb 1983
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Prodipoides katensis (Korth 2002)
Korth 2007
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
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval:Clarendonian
Age range of interval:13.60000 - 10.30000 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
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:"Kat Quarry Channel" specimens are from the general collecting area, exact quarry not recorded: Frick 1937 p. 85; however, all "Kat Quarry Channel" specimens from 1931 must come from this quarry based on dates of discovery of other quarries in the channel system
number of specimens not clear: see Skinner and Johnson 1984
Metadata
Database number:18218
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:

6193. M. F. Skinner and F. W. Johnson. 1984. Tertiary stratigraphy and the Frick Collection of fossil vertebrates from north-central Nebraska. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 178(3):1-368 [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]
1032 J. A. Baskin. 1998. Evolutionary trends in the late Miocene hyena-like dog Epicyon (Carnivora, Canidae). National Science Museum Monographs 14:191-214 [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]
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]
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]
1977 R. M. Hunt, Jr. 1998. Amphicyonidae. 196-227 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
6277 S. T. Hussain. 1975. Evolutionary and functional anatomy of the pelvic limb in fossil and recent Equidae (Perissodactyla, Mammalia). Anatomie, Histologie, Embryologie 4:179-222 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
57334 W. W. Korth. 2007. A new genus of beaver (Rodentia, Castoridae) from the miocene (Clarendonian) of North America and systematics of the Castoroidinae based on comparative cranial anatomy. Annals of Carnegie Museum 76(2) [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]
51726 D. R. Prothero. 2005. The Evolution of North American Rhinoceroses. 1-218 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]
58090 D. R. Prothero and A. Pollen. 2013. New Late Miocene Fossil Peccaries From California and Nebraska. Kirtlandia 58:42-53 [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]
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]
51389 S. D. Webb and J. A. Meachen. 2004. On the Origin of Lamine Camelidae Including a New Genus From the Late Miocene of the High Plains. Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History 36(1):349-362 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot/J. Marcot]
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]
3773 D. B. Wright. 1983. Later Miocene Tayassuidae (Artiodactyla, Mammalia) of North America. University of Nebraska, M. S. thesis 1-350 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Sepkoski]