Kat Quarry: Clarendonian, Nebraska
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Nimravidae
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Barbourofelis sp.
Schultz et al. 1970
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Amphicyonidae
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Pseudocyon sp.
Lartet 1851
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Hunt 1998 | |||||||||
"Kat Quarry horizon" | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Cynarctus crucidens
Barbour and Cook 1914
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Wang et al. 1999 | |||||||||
Aelurodon taxoides
Hatcher 1894
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Wang et al. 1999 | |||||||||
also Kat Quarry Channel | ||||||||||
Epicyon haydeni
(Leidy 1858)
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Baskin 1998 | |||||||||
confirmed by Wang et al. 1999 | ||||||||||
Leptocyon matthewi
Tedford et al. 2009
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Tedford et al. 2009 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Hypohippus sp.
(Leidy 1858)
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Hussain 1975 | |||||||||
original and current combination Anchitherium (Hypohippus) | ||||||||||
Calippus cerasinus
(Hulbert 1988)
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Hulbert 1988 | |||||||||
Cormohipparion occidentale
(Leidy 1856)
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Woodburne 2007 | |||||||||
Pseudhipparion skinneri
Webb and Hulbert 1986
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Hulbert 1989 | |||||||||
pers. commun. | ||||||||||
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
- Camelidae
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Pleiolama mckennai n. sp.
Webb and Meachen 2004
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Webb and Meachen 2004 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Merycoidodontidae
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Ustatochoerus major
(Leidy 1858)
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Schultz and Falkenbach 1941 | |||||||||
= Merychyus major
Leidy 1858
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
recombined as Ustatochoerus major | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Tayassuidae
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Tayassuidae indet.
Palmer 1897
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Wright 1983 | |||||||||
new species "A" | ||||||||||
= Skinnerhyus shermerorum
Prothero and Pollen 2013
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Prothero and Pollen 2013 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Gelocidae
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Pseudoceras skinneri
Frick 1937
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Frick 1937 | |||||||||
Kat Quarry sensu stricto | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Antilocapridae
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Plioceros floblairi
Frick 1937
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Frick 1937 | |||||||||
"Kat Quarry channel, 1931"; postcrania | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Palaeomerycidae
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Cranioceras granti
Frick 1937
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Frick 1937 | |||||||||
= Cranioceras unicornis
Matthew 1918
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
"Kat Quarry Channel"; includes 1931 material; see also Webb 1983 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Castoridae
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Prodipoides katensis
(Korth 2002)
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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] |