Agate Springs Quarries: Harrisonian, Nebraska
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Diceratherium arikarense n. sp.
Barbour 1906
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Barbour 1906 | |||||||||
recombined as Menoceras arikarense | ||||||||||
Diceratherium loomisi n. sp.
Cook 1912
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Cook 1912 | |||||||||
synonym of Menoceras arikarense | ||||||||||
Diceratherium cooki n. sp.
Peterson 1906
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synonym of Menoceras arikarense | ||||||||||
see also Prothero and Manning 1987; "M. sp." of Hunt 1985 (4 measurements) | ||||||||||
Diceratherium sp.
Marsh 1875
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Hunt 1985 | |||||||||
Diceratherium niobrarense
(Peterson 1906)
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Prothero 2005 | |||||||||
original and current combination Diceratherium niobrarensis | ||||||||||
"Arikareean Quarry A" and "Agate Springs Quarry A" | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Chalicotheriidae
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Moropus elatus
Marsh 1877
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"M. sp." of Hunt 1985 (1 measurement) | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Parahippus sp.
(Leidy 1858)
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Hunt 1985 | |||||||||
= Equidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
Anchitherium agatensis
(Osborn 1918)
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Forsten 1975 | |||||||||
original and current combination Kalobatippus agatensis | ||||||||||
from "Agate Springs"; not in Hunt's list | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Camelidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Hunt 1985 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Tayassuidae
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Thinohyus siouxensis n. sp.
Peterson 1906
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Peterson 1906 | |||||||||
recombined as Stuckyhyus siouxensis | ||||||||||
"Agate Spring Stock Farm" | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Merycoidodontidae
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Merychyus siouxensis
Loomis 1924
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Schultz and Falkenbach 1947 | |||||||||
synonym of Paramerychyus harrisonensis | ||||||||||
presumably includes any of several "Upper Harrison" oreodonts of Peterson 1907; no oreodonts in Hunt's list | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Palaeomerycidae
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Blastomeryx pristinus n. sp.
Cook 1934
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Cook 1934 | |||||||||
nomen dubium belonging to Aletomeryx | ||||||||||
specific quarry not indicated (1 measurement) | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Entelodontidae
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Dinohyus hollandi n. sp.
(Peterson 1905)
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"D. sp." of Hunt 1985 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Amphicyonidae
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Daphoenodon superbus
(Peterson 1907)
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Hunt 1998 | |||||||||
University Quarry and Carnegie Quarry 1 | ||||||||||
Delotrochanter oryktes
Hunt 2011
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Hunt 2011 | |||||||||
"removed from Princeton University quarry block (now YPM-PU 12213), Princeton Expedition of 1914, loc. 1002A, Carnegie Hill waterhole bonebed, Agate Fossil Beds National Monument, Sioux County, Nebraska" | ||||||||||
Cynelos sp.
Jourdan 1862
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Hunt 1985 | |||||||||
from Quarry 1 according to Albright 1996, Hunt 1998b | ||||||||||
Ysengrinia sp.
Ginsburg 1965
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Hunt 1985 | |||||||||
from University Quarry: Hunt 1998b | ||||||||||
= Ysengrinia americana
Wortman 1901
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Hunt 2002 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Ursidae
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Cephalogale sp.
Jourdan 1862
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Hunt 1985 | |||||||||
not discussed in Hunt 1972; at University Quarry according to Hunt 1998a | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Theropoda
- Cracidae
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Ortalis tantala n. sp.
Wetmore 1933
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Wetmore 1933 | |||||||||
H. J. Cook collection made between 1929 and 1931 from "the large quarry... on the southwest side of Carnegie Hill" | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Theropoda
- Tetraonidae
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Palaealectoris incertus n. gen., n. sp.
Wetmore 1930
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Wetmore 1930 | |||||||||
1928 MCZ collection from "Agate Springs quarries" | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Theropoda
- Glareolidae
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Paractiornis perpusillus n. gen., n. sp.
Wetmore 1930
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Wetmore 1930 | |||||||||
1929 MCZ collection from "Carnegie Hill, Agate fossil quarry" | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Theropoda
- Buteonidae
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Proictinia effera n. sp.
Wetmore 1923
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Wetmore 1958 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
Reptilia
- Theropoda
- Accipitridae
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Accipitridae indet.
Viellot 1816
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Wetmore 1933 | |||||||||
H. J. Cook collection made between 1929 and 1931 from "the large quarry... on the southwest side of Carnegie Hill" | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Nebraska | County: | Sioux |
Coordinates: | 42.4° North, 103.9° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 43.3° North, 98.8° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 4-5 | ||
*Period: | Tertiary | *Epoch: | Miocene |
Key time interval: | Harrisonian | ||
Age range of interval: | 23.1 - 18.5 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Geological group: | Hemingford | Formation: | Marsland | Member: | Basal |
Local section: | PineR | Local bed: | 14 | ||
Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: "basal member of Upper Harrison Beds" |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | sandstone |
Environment: | "channel" |
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: channel |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Collection method comments: ETE reference list: 478 | |
Taxonomic list comments:does NOT include Peterson's Quarry A (see) see also Beardog Hill (= Quarry 3, Den Site) miscellaneous "Agate" records: "Cynodesmus" thomsoni Peterson 1910: "upper Harrison beds... Niobrara River, Sioux Co." Desmocyon thomsoni Wang et al. 1999: "south of Harrison, high brown sand"; "locality KU-NE-028, Dout Ranch, Sitting Hen and vicinity" (all Upper Harrison) "Cynarctus" acridens McGrew 1937a: referred specimen, "upper Harrison beds east of Agate, Sioux County"; this is actually Cynarctoides emryi: Wang et al. 1999 "Promerycochoerus carrikeri" Schultz and Falkenbach 1949: "2 mi. N. of Harrison-Van Tassel road, 1/2 mi. E. of Wyoming state line"; same "1/4 mi. E" of line; and "S. of Harrison"; all in "upper portion of the Harrison beds" - Harrison Fm. or Upper Harrison?? "Phenacocoelus stouti" Schultz and Falkenbach 1950: "south of Harrison, Sioux County" implicitly assigned to the "lower Marsland" Oxydactylus campestris Cook 1909a: "Lower Harrison Beds, near Agate, Sioux County" Nanotragulus albanensis Frick 1937: type, "Lower Harrison, Sioux County" revision of Peterson 1906, 1907 |
Metadata
Also known as: | Agate Bone Bed; Agate Fossil Beds; Agate Spring Quarries; Carnegie Hill; University Hill; Peterson's Quarries 1 and 2; ETE Locality 1506 | ||
Database number: | 17741 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy, M. Carrano, J. Marcot | Enterer: | J. Alroy, M. Carrano, J. Marcot |
Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 1993-09-27 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2020-11-19 15:17:31 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-09-27 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
2751. | O. A. Peterson. 1907. The Miocene Beds of Western Nebraska and Eastern Wyoming and Their Vertebrate Faunae. Annals of Carnegie Museum 4(3):21-72 [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] | |
63661 | Anonymous. 1917. Paleontology. Annual Report of the Colorado Museum of Natural History for the Year 1916 19-23 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
980 | E. H. Barbour. 1906. Notice of a new Miocene rhinoceros, Diceratherium arikarense. Science 24(624):780-781 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
1264 | H. J. Cook. 1912. A new species of rhinoceros (Diceratherium loomisi) from the lower Miocene of Nebraska. Nebraska Geological Survey Bulletin 7(4):29-32 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] | |
1268 | H. J. Cook. 1934. New artiodactyls from the Oligocene and Lower Miocene of Nebraska. American Midland Naturalist 15(2):148-165 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
1504 | A. -M. Forsten. 1975. The Fossil Horses of the Texas Gulf Coastal Plain: A Revision . Pearce-Sellards Series 22:1-86 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju] | |
5678 | ETE 1434 | R. M. Hunt. 1990. Taphonomy and sedimentology of Arikaree (lower Miocene) fluvial, eolian, and lacustrine paleoenvironments, Nebraska and Wyoming; a paleobiota entombed in fine-grained wolcaniclastic rocks,. In: Lockley, M.G. and Rice, A., eds. Volcanism and Fossil Biotas. Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America, Special Paper 244 69-111 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik] |
1971 | R. M. Hunt, Jr. 1985. Faunal succession, lithofacies, and depositional environments in Arikaree rocks (lower Miocene) of the Hartville Table, Nebraska and Wyoming. Dakoterra 2(2):155-204 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
1977 | R. M. Hunt, Jr. 1998. Amphicyonidae. 196-227 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
52421 | R. M. Hunt, Jr. 2011. Evolution of Large Carnivores During the Mid-Cenozoic of North America: The Temnocyonine Radiation (Mammalia, Amphicyonidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 358:1-153 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot] | |
48532 | S. L. Olson and D. W. Steadman. 1979. The fossil record of the Glareolidae and Haematopodidae (Aves: Charadriiformes). 91(4):972-981 [M. Uhen/J. David] | |
2749 | O. A. Peterson. 1906. New suilline remains from the Miocene of Nebraska. Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum 2(8):305-325 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] | |
2754 | O. A. Peterson. 1910. Description of new carnivores from the Miocene of western Nebraska. Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum 4(5):205-278 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] | |
51726 | D. R. Prothero. 2005. The Evolution of North American Rhinoceroses. 1-218 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot] | |
3064 | C. B. Schultz and C. H. Falkenbach. 1947. Merychyinae, a subfamily of oreodonts. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 88(4):157-286 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] | |
25082 | A. Wetmore. 1930. Two fossil birds from the Miocene of Nebraska. Condor 32(3):152-154 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
25083 | A. Wetmore. 1933. A fossil gallinaceous bird from the Lower Miocene of Nebraska. The Condor 35(2):64-65 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
26465 | ETE | A. Wetmore. 1958. Miscellaneous notes on fossil birds. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 135(8):1-11 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |