Runningwater Formation Pleurolicus exiguus (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Sioux County, Nebraska (42.6° N, 103.8° W: paleocoordinates 43.3° N, 99.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Runningwater Formation, Early/Lower Hemingfordian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• "?Runningwater Formation... earliest Hemingfordian"

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Reposited in the AMNH

Primary reference: W. W. Korth. 1996. A New Species of Pleurolocus (Rodentia, Geomyidae) from the Early Miocene (Arikareean) of Nebraska. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 16(4):781-784 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 102283: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 12.01.2011

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Rodentia - Geomyidae
Pleurolicus exiguus Korth 1996 pocket gopher