Where: Slope County, North Dakota (46.4° N, 103.3° W: paleocoordinates 47.2° N, 96.4° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Arikaree Formation, Whitneyan to Whitneyan (33.3 - 24.8 Ma)
• said to be Whitneyan to early Arikareean = Geringian or Monroecreekian
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Primary reference: J. W. Hoganson, E. C. Murphy, and N. F. Forsman. 1998. Chadron, Brule, and Arikaree Formations, North Dakota. In D. O. Terry, H. E. LaGarry, R. M. Hunt Jr. (eds.), Geological Society of America Special Paper: Depositional Environments, Lithostratigraphy, and Biostratigraphy of the White River and Arikaree Groups (Late Eocene to Early Miocene, North America) 325:185-196 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/T. Cleary]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 17330: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 13.10.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Miohippus obliquidens Osborn 1904 anchitheriine horse | |
Elomeryx armatus Marsh 1894 anthracothere |