Goldie's Honeypot Quarry (Miocene of the United States)

Also known as UALP 7498

Where: Yavapai County, Arizona (34.5° N, 112.5° W: paleocoordinates 35.2° N, 109.7° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Milk Creek Formation, Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: L. L. Jacobs and E. H. Lindsay. 1984. Holarctic Radiation of Neogene Muroid Rodents and the Origin of South American Cricetids. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 4(2) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]more details

PaleoDB collection 19354: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002

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Taxonomic list

• 5 or 10 ft above Shields Ranch and Manzanita Quarry
Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
"Michenia yavapaiensis" = Protolabis yavapaiensis, Protolabis coartatus
"Michenia yavapaiensis" = Protolabis yavapaiensis Honey and Taylor 1978 camel
Protolabis coartatus Stirton 1929 camel
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Copemys sp. Wood 1936 mouse