Where: Sioux County, Nebraska (42.4° N, 103.8° W: paleocoordinates 43.4° N, 96.3° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Whitney Member (Brule Formation), Whitneyan (33.3 - 30.8 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
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
PaleoDB collection 17424: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 05.08.1996
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Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Leptauchenia major Leidy 1856 oreodont |