Carroll Rim (Oligocene of the United States)
Also known as JDNM-24
Where: Wheeler County, Oregon (44.9° N, 120.2° W: paleocoordinates 44.7° N, 109.1° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: lower Turtle Cove Member (John Day Formation), Whitneyan (33.3 - 30.8 Ma)
• said to be late Whitneyan
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Primary reference: T. Fremd. 1994. John Day Basin paleontology field trip guide and road log: Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. John Day Fossil Beds National Monument 94-1 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details
PaleoDB collection 17313: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.03.1995, edited by Jonathan Marcot
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• "14 m below the sanidine tuff of the western facies member G" dated at 29.8 Ma (SCLF AA); this is NOT the same as Member G of the standard Turtle Cove section
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Mammalia | |
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Diceratherium annectens Marsh 1873 rhinoceros | |
Miohippus sp. Marsh 1874 anchitheriine horse | |
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Agriochoerus sp. Leidy 1850 agriochoerid |