UNSM Mo-107 (Upper Whitney) (Oligocene of the United States)

Where: Morrill County, Nebraska (41.7° N, 103.1° W: paleocoordinates 42.7° N, 95.7° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Whitney Member (Brule Formation), Whitneyan (33.3 - 30.8 Ma)

• upper part of member

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the UNSM

Primary reference: C. B. Schultz and C. H. Falkenbach. 1968. The Phylogeny of the Oreodonts. Part 1: Merycoidodontinae, Eporeodontinae, and Leptaucheniinae, Three Subfamilies Of Oreodonts, With an Appendix to the Revision Of The Merycoidodontidae, and Part 2. Summary and Conclusions Concerning the Merycoidodontidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 139:1-498 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 17397: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 05.08.1996, edited by Jonathan Marcot

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Merycoidodontidae
"Desmatochoerus (Paradesmatochoerus) wyomingensis" = Mesoreodon minor, Leptauchenia decora
"Desmatochoerus (Paradesmatochoerus) wyomingensis" = Mesoreodon minor Douglass 1903 oreodont
Leptauchenia decora Leidy 1856 oreodont