Where: Brown County, Nebraska (42.7° N, 100.0° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 45.9° N, 93.2° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Devil's Gulch Member (Valentine Formation), Barstovian (16.3 - 12.5 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
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 18205: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 19.05.2000
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
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Carpocyon compressus Cope 1890 bone-crushing dog said to be from the Devil's Gulch Member, but locality given as "Horsethief Canyon No. 2" (meaning No. 3?)
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