Head of Bear Creek (Orellan/Nebraska) (Oligocene of the United States)

Where: Cherry County, Nebraska (42.8° N, 100.8° W: paleocoordinates 43.8° N, 92.6° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Orellan (33.9 - 33.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: M. R. Dawson. 1958. Later Tertiary Leporidae of North America. University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions Vertebrata 6:1-75 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Holroyd]more details

PaleoDB collection 17119: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002

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Taxonomic list

• there is a Bear Creek in Cherry County but not in Sioux or Dawes counties
Mammalia
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Palaeolagus haydeni n. sp. Leidy 1856 rabbit
of Leidy from "Turtle bed"