Below Gallup Gulch Quarry (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Cherry County, Nebraska (42.8° N, 100.8° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 45.5° N, 95.6° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: M. F. Skinner and F. W. Johnson. 1984. Tertiary stratigraphy and the Frick Collection of fossil vertebrates from north-central Nebraska. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 178(3):1-368 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 18053: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 17.06.2000

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Taxonomic list

• see section 12, p. 337
apparently includes only two specimens
Mammalia
 Carnivora - Mustelidae
Mustelidae indet. Fischer 1817 mustelid carnivore
 Carnivora - Canidae
Carpocyon robustus Green 1948 bone-crushing dog
confirmed by Wang et al. 1999