Agate (5-7 Miles NE): Harrisonian, Nebraska
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Erinaceidae
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Brachyerix macrotis
Matthew 1933
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"5 to 7 miles... northeast of Agate" (formation unknown) | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Michenia agatensis n. sp.
Frick and Taylor 1971
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Frick and Taylor 1971 | |||||||||
from 6 mi NE of "former post office of Agate"; and second locality 5 mi NE of Agate (6 measurements) | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Protoceratidae
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Syndyoceras cooki
Barbour 1905
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Patton and Taylor 1971 | |||||||||
"Lower... Marsland, 5 to 7 miles northeast of Agate" | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Moschidae
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Machaeromeryx tragulus n. sp.
Matthew 1926
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Frick 1937 | |||||||||
"Upper Harrison Beds... 7 miles N.E. of Agate"; see also Matthew 1926 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Merycoidodontidae
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Merychyus verrucomalus
Stevens 1970
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Stevens 1970 | |||||||||
"5-7 miles NE of Agate" | ||||||||||
Merycochoerus matthewi
Loomis 1924
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Schultz and Falkenbach 1940 | |||||||||
5 mi and 6 mi NE of Agate, "Marsland" Fm. | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Desmocyon thomsoni
(Matthew 1907)
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Wang et al. 1999 | |||||||||
"low in section" | ||||||||||
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
*Period: | Tertiary | *Epoch: | Miocene |
Key time interval: | Harrisonian | ||
Age range of interval: | 24.80000 - 20.43000 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: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: = Upper Harrison beds |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | not reported |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | some genera |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Taxonomic list comments:the American Museum "4 mi. N.E. of Agate" locality is the American Museum-Cook Quarry (see) |
Metadata
Database number: | 17738 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 1995-10-18 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2018-02-05 13:52:13 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1995-10-18 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
2897. | T. H. V. Rich. 1981. Origin and History of the Erinaceinae and Brachyericinae (Mammalia, Insectivora) in North America. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 171(1):1-116 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Mannion] |
Secondary references:
6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
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] | |
1550 | C. Frick and B. E. Taylor. 1971. Michenia, a new protolabine (Mammalia, Camelidae) and a brief review of the early taxonomic history of the genus Protolabis. American Museum Novitates 2444:1-24 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] | |
2739 | T. H. Patton and B. E. Taylor. 1971. The Synthetoceratinae (Mammalia, Tylopoda, Protoceratidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 145(2):119-218 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/B. Beatty] | |
3062 | C. B. Schultz and C. H. Falkenbach. 1940. Merycochoerinae, a new subfamily of oreodonts. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 77(5):213-306 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] | |
3222 | M. S. Stevens. 1970. Merychyus verrucomalus, a new species of oreodont (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) from the Middle Miocene Runningwater Formation. American Museum Novitates 2425:1-11 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/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] |