Beardog Hill: Harrisonian, Nebraska
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Amphicyonidae
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Amphicyon superbus n. sp.
Peterson 1907
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Peterson 1907 | |||||||||
| specimen from Quarry 3 mentioned by Hunt 1977 | ||||||||||
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Delotrochanter oryktes
Hunt 2011
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Hunt 2011 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Mustelidae
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Paroligobunis simplicidens n. sp.
(Peterson 1907)
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Peterson 1910 | |||||||||
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= Megalictis ferox
Matthew 1907
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Hunt 1985 | |||||||||
| referred to as "Brachypsalis simplicidens" by Peterson 1907; includes M. sp. of Hunt and Skolnick 1990 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Nothocyon annectens n. sp.
Peterson 1907
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Peterson 1907 | |||||||||
| Quarry 3 | ||||||||||
| 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 - Tertiary | *Epoch: | Miocene - 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 | ||
| Local section: | PineR | Local bed: | 14 | ||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: time_unit, ETE age comment: .
= Upper Harrison beds | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandstone |
| Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: . | |
| Environment: | fluvial indet. |
| Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: flood, ETE env comment: . | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection size: | 1 specimens |
| Reason for describing collection: | taphonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 478, ; ETE museum list: | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | ETE Locality 1515, Agate Spring Quarry 3, Den Site | ||
| Database number: | 22641 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Behrensmeyer, J. Marcot, J. Alroy | Enterer: | A. Behrensmeyer, J. Alroy, J. Marcot |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2001-03-27 01:00:00 | Last modified: | 2018-02-05 13:51:18 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2001-03-27 01:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 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] |
Secondary references:
| 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] | |
| 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] | |
| 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] | |
| 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] |