Where: Antelope County, Nebraska (42.4° N, 98.1° W: paleocoordinates 42.8° N, 95.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Merritt Dam Member (Ash Hollow Formation), Late/Upper Clarendonian (12.5 - 9.4 Ma)

• single sandstone bed "about 1 m thick"; shown above Bluejay Quarry (Merritt Dam Member) in the upper Ash Hollow Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fine channel fill; silty sandstone

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: bulk, chemical, sieve,

• burrow fillings "soaked... in water and detergent until disaggregated, and then screened... using 25-mesh screen"

Primary reference: M. R. Voorhies. 1974. Fossil pocket mouse burrows in Nebraska. American Midland Naturalist 91(2):492-498 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 37802: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 24.03.2004

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