Where: Goshen County, Wyoming (42.0° N, 104.2° W: paleocoordinates 42.9° N, 98.4° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Lower Member (Harrison Formation), Arikareean (29.5 - 18.5 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: E. M. Schlaikjer. 1935. Contributions to the Stratigraphy and Palaeontology of the Goshen Hole Area, Wyoming. III. A New Basal Oligocene Formation. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 76(3):71-93 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 17466: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 30.04.1994
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
assigned to the Gering by Schultz and Falkenbach 1954
"200 feet above the Brule-lower Harrison contact"
status unclear: Archaeocyon leptodus Wang et al. 1999: "South side of Bear Mountain, lower Arikareaa Group... Goshen County"
| Mammalia | |
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Palaeolagus philoi Dawson 1958 rabbit | |
"Mesocyon hortulirosae n. sp." = Paraenhydrocyon josephi
"Mesocyon hortulirosae n. sp." = Paraenhydrocyon josephi Cope 1881 canid | |
"Promerycochoerus loomisi n. sp." = Megoreodon grandis, "Leptauchenia minora n. sp." = Leptauchenia decora
"Promerycochoerus loomisi n. sp." = Megoreodon grandis Douglass 1907 oreodont
"Leptauchenia minora n. sp." = Leptauchenia decora Leidy 1856 oreodont | |
"Nanotragulus intermedius n. sp." = Nanotragulus loomisi
"Nanotragulus intermedius n. sp." = Nanotragulus loomisi Lull 1922 ruminant | |