Warbonnet Creek (Orellan) (Oligocene of the United States)
Also known as Brewster and Emmons Ranch; Warbonnet Ranch
Where: Sioux County, Nebraska (42.4° N, 103.8° W: paleocoordinates 43.6° N, 95.7° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Brule Formation, Orellan (33.9 - 33.3 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Primary reference: E. L. Troxell. 1922. Horned Eocene ungulates. American Journal of Science 203 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]more details
PaleoDB collection 17297: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 05.08.1996, edited by Terri Cleary
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• some F:AM "Warbonnet Creek" material is from 10 mi, not 12 mi, N of Harrison: Prothero 1996c
Show authors, comments, and common names
Reptilia | |
Peltosaurus granulosus3 Cope 1873 squamates CM 271, fragmentary parts of dentary containing teeth. "Lower Oredon beds", collected by J B Hatcher in 1900.; CM 1248, parietal, frontal, maxillae, greater portion of both rami plus a block containing dermal scutes. "Oreodon beds", coll. Peterson 1904.
| |
Mammalia | |
| |
"Scottimus viduus n. sp." = Willeumys viduus5
| |
Daphoenus vetus6 Leidy 1853 bear-dog "one half mile south of John Anderson's ranch house... Middle Oligocene"
Daphoenus hartshornianus4 Cope 1873 bear-dog Warbonnet Creek; does not include "D. vetus" of Thorpe 1923d because specimen is from FMNH collection DUPLICATE REF 1975 or 1979
| |
"Merycoidodon culbertsoni" = Merycoidodon culbertsonii1
| |
Hypisodus alacer2 Troxell 1920 ruminant CM specimen from "Oreodon Beds, Sioux County... Warbonnet Creek"
| |
|