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 | |
"Desmatochoerus (Paradesmatochoerus) wyomingensis" = Mesoreodon minor, Leptauchenia decora
"Desmatochoerus (Paradesmatochoerus) wyomingensis" = Mesoreodon minor Douglass 1903 oreodont
Leptauchenia decora Leidy 1856 oreodont |