Hoplophoneus Skeleton Site (Eocene to of the United States)

Where: Sheridan County, Wyoming (44.8° N, 107.5° W: paleocoordinates 46.3° N, 98.9° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Chadronian to Chadronian (37.2 - 33.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: M. C. McKenna and J. D. Love. 1972. High-level Strata Containing Early Miocene Mammals on the Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming. American Museum Novitates 2490:1-31 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details

PaleoDB collection 16976: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.03.1995

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• no particular locality name given
SW 1/4 sec 5 T56N R88W
age unclear, could be Orellan
Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equidae indet. Gray 1821 horse
"Mesohippus-like"
 Carnivora - Nimravidae
Hoplophoneus sp. Cope 1874 false sabre-tooth