West of UNSM Sf-101 (Gering) (Oligocene of the United States)

Where: Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska (41.8° N, 103.8° W: paleocoordinates 42.7° N, 97.3° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Gering Formation, Geringian (30.8 - 26.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Reposited in the UNSM

Primary reference: C. B. Schultz and C. H. Falkenbach. 1968. The Phylogeny of the Oreodonts. Part 1: Merycoidodontinae, Eporeodontinae, and Leptaucheniinae, Three Subfamilies Of Oreodonts, With an Appendix to the Revision Of The Merycoidodontidae, and Part 2. Summary and Conclusions Concerning the Merycoidodontidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 139:1-498 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details

PaleoDB collection 17721: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 05.08.1996

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Taxonomic list

• it appears that this is the same as "Roubadeau Pass, west of the National Monument" of Tedford et al. 1996
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Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Diceratherium sp.
Diceratherium sp. Marsh 1875 rhinoceros
 Artiodactyla - Merycoidodontidae
"Megasespia middleswarti" = Sespia ultima, Megoreodon sp.
"Megasespia middleswarti" = Sespia ultima Schultz and Falkenbach 1968 oreodont
"'15-25 ft. above Brule-Gering contact,' 1 mi. W." of UNSM Sf-101; I interpret this as Unit D lying directly on the Brule based on Tedford et al. 1996
Megoreodon sp. Schultz and Falkenbach 1954 oreodont