Fort Polk Castor Creek (Miocene of the United States)
Where: Louisiana (31.1° N, 93.2° W: paleocoordinates 31.5° N, 90.3° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. A. Scheibout, S. Ting, P. Aharon, M. Chu, M. Jones and J. M. Parrish. 1998. Miocene terrestrial & marine vertebrates of Fort Polk, LA; paleoecology, bio- & magnetostratigraphy, geochemistry. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18(3, suppl.):75-76 [M. Uhen/C. Peredo]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 163850: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Carlos Peredo on 18.11.2014
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unclassified | |
Mammalia | |
Mammalia indet. Linnaeus 1758 mammal | |
Phocidae indet. Gray 1821 seal |