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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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Mammalia
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Mammalia indet. Linnaeus 1758 mammal
 Carnivora - Phocidae
Phocidae indet. Gray 1821 seal