American Museum-Cook Quarry: Harrisonian, Nebraska
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Palaeomerycidae
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Blastomeryx cursor n. sp.
Cook 1934
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Cook 1934 | |||||||||
| "Upper Harrison... about four miles northeast of Agate" | ||||||||||
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= Barbouromeryx trigonocorneus
Barbour and Schultz 1934
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Prothero 2008 | |||||||||
| "Beryl Taylor (notes in AMNH collections) showed that this specimen is not Blastomeryx, but probably the dromomerycid Barbouromeryx trigonocorneus." | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Hunt 1972 | |||||||||
| "Parahippus" of 1908 field note | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Rhinocerotidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Hunt 1972 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Chalicotheriidae
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Moropus elatus
Marsh 1877
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Coombs 1978 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Amphicyonidae
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? Ysengrinia sp.
Ginsburg 1965
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Hunt 1972 | |||||||||
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= Ysengrinia americana
Wortman 1901
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Hunt 2002 | |||||||||
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"Temnocyon" percussor
Cook 1909
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Hunt 1972 | |||||||||
| referred specimens | ||||||||||
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= Temnocyon percussor
Cook 1909
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Hunt 2011 | |||||||||
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Daphoenodon periculosus
Cook 1909
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= Daphoenodon superbus
Peterson 1907
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
| from "first mentioned quarry" | ||||||||||
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Cynelos sp.
Jourdan 1862
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Hunt 1972 | |||||||||
| omitted by Hunt 1998b | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Mustelidae
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Oligobunis lepidus
Matthew 1907
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= Promartes cf. lepidus
Matthew 1907
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
| "new quarry mentioned first in this article" | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Cynarctus acridens n. sp.
Barbour and Cook 1914
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= Cynarctoides acridens
Barbour and Cook 1914
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Barbour and Cook 1914 | |||||||||
| from "four miles northeast of Agate" in the "Upper Harrison beds" | ||||||||||
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Nothocyon sp.
Wortman and Matthew 1899
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= Phlaocyon annectens
Peterson 1907
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Wang et al. 1999 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Nebraska | County: | Sioux |
| Coordinates: | 42.4° North, 103.8° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 43.3° North, 98.8° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 4-5 | ||
| *Period: | Tertiary | *Epoch: | Miocene |
| Key time interval: | Harrisonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 23.10000 - 18.50000 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: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "basal member of Upper Harrison Beds" | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:see Hunt 1985a for geological position
this is the same as "4 miles northeast of Agate postoffice" according to Hunt 1972 "Mesocyon venator" is NOT from this site: Stevens 1991 possibly relevant: Tomarctus thompsoni from "Three miles northeast of Agate": Cook and Macdonald 1962 Aletomeryx marshi Frick 1937: "from the Harrison, three miles northeast of Agate" | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Cook's "Pocket" | ||
| Database number: | 17744 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot | Enterer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1993-09-27 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2018-02-05 13:49:46 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-09-27 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 1261. | H. J. Cook. 1908. A new genus of rhinoceros from Sioux County, Nebraska. Nebraska Geological Survey Bulletin 3(6):245-248 [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] | |
| 999 | E. H. Barbour and H. J. Cook. 1914. Two new fossil dogs of the genus Cynarctus from Nebraska. Nebraska Geological Survey 4(15):225-227 [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] | |
| 1274 | M. C. Coombs. 1978. Reevaluation of Early Miocene North American Moropus (Perissodactyla, Chalicotheriidae, Schizotheriinae). Bulletin of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History 4:1-62 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] | |
| 1966 | R. M. Hunt, Jr. 1972. Miocene amphicyonids (Mammalia, Carnivora) from the Agate Spring Quarries, Sioux County, Nebraska. American Museum Novitates 2506:1-39 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju] | |
| 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] | |
| 51375 | D. R. Prothero. 2008. Systematics of the musk deer (Artiodactyla: Moschidae: Blastomerycinae) from the Miocene of North America. In S. G. Lucas, G. S. Morgan, J. A. Spielmann, D. R. Prothero (eds.), Neogene Mammals 44:207-223 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot/J. Marcot] | |
| 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] |