Where: Goshen County, Wyoming (42.0° N, 104.2° W: paleocoordinates 42.6° N, 101.2° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Barstovian (16.3 - 12.5 Ma)
• Hunt, Jr. 2005: Barstovian "Spoon Butte Beds" of O. A. Peterson (1909)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; conglomeratic sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. B. Vanderhill. 1980. Geology and paleontology of the Patrick Buttes, Sioux County, Nebraska, and Goshen County, Wyoming. 1-98 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 18407: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 05.08.1992, edited by Jonathan Marcot
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
much of this list is repeated by Hunt 1985b
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Protohippus cf. perditus Leidy 1858 horse
cf. Desmatippus sp. Scott 1893 anchitheriine horse comparisons made to Parahippus crenidens, "P." integer, and P. brevidens (all of which are Desmatippus sensu MacFadden 1998), not to P. cognatus
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Tapiridae indet. Gray 1821 tapir | |
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Rhinocerotidae indet. Gray 1821 rhinoceros | |
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Tayassuidae indet. Palmer 1897 peccary | |
"Dromomerycidae indet." = Dromomerycinae
"Dromomerycidae indet." = Dromomerycinae Frick 1937 ruminant | |
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Moschidae indet. Gray 1821 musk deer | |
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Antilocapridae indet. Gray 1866 pronghorn | |
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Camelidae indet. Gray 1821 camel | |
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Merycoidodontidae indet. Cook 1912 oreodont | |
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Amphicyonidae indet. Haeckel 1886 bear-dog | |
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Mylagaulidae indet. Cope 1881 rodent | |
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Gomphotheriidae indet. Hay 1922 gomphothere | |