Bear Creek Mountain (Lower) ( of the United States)

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 17467: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 30.04.1994

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Taxonomic list

• stratigraphic level not indicated: "Sciurus sp." "Mesoreodon" chelonyx "Promerycochoerus hatcheri" Capatanka minor Xu 1996: "Lusk 378-3541, Bear Mountain"
Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Merycoidodontidae
Leptauchenia major1 Leidy 1856 oreodont
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Stenomylus hitchcocki Loomis 1910 camel
"24 feet above the Brule-lower Harrison contact"; east end of mountain
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Palaeolagus hypsodus2 Schlaikjer 1935 rabbit
from "30 feet above Brule-lower Harrison channel deposit": presumably a lapsus meaning 30' above contact and in a channel deposit