Bear Creek Mountain (West 2) ( 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 (30.8 - 20.4 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

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: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 17469: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 30.04.1994

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Taxonomic list

• NW 1/4 sec 21 T 20N R 62W
"150 feet above the Brule-lower Harrison contact"
Mammalia
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Palaeolagus hypsodus n. sp. Schlaikjer 1935 rabbit