Also known as Torrington Quarry
Where: Goshen County, Wyoming (42.0° N, 104.2° W: paleocoordinates 43.2° N, 96.2° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: lower Member (Brule Formation), Orellan (33.9 - 33.3 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: E. M. Schlaikjer. 1935. Contributions to the Stratigraphy and Palaeontology of the Goshen Hole Area, Wyoming. III. A New Basal Oligocene Formation. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 76(3):71-93 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 17117: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 30.04.1994
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Taxonomic list
NW 1/4 sec 32 T 24N R 61W
based on Prothero 1996c this is definitely in a normal zone
clearly Orellan based on age ranges given by Emry et al. 1987; correlated with Orella B by Schultz and Stout 1955
a specimen of Merycoidodon culbertsoni from the "middle Oligocene" may be from this locality because the lower Brule is "middle Oligocene" in Schlaikjer's terminology
Mammalia | |
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Miohippus obliquidens Osborn 1904 anchitheriine horse | |
Poebrotherium sp. Leidy 1847 camel | |
Archaeotherium palustris n. sp. Schlaikjer 1935 even-toed ungulate
Archaeotherium mortoni Leidy 1850 even-toed ungulate | |
Hypisodus alacer Troxell 1920 ruminant | |
Hesperocyon gregarius Cope 1873 canid |