Canyon Ferry Bonebed ( of the United States)

Where: Lewis and Clark County, Montana (46.6° N, 112.1° W: paleocoordinates 47.7° N, 106.2° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Arikareean (30.8 - 20.4 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: P. Leiggi. 1991. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, New Bulletin 151:65 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

PaleoDB collection 17481: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993, edited by Jonathan Marcot

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Taxonomic list

• probably includes one of the above localities
Mammalia
 Carnivora - Nimravidae
Pogonodon sp. Cope 1880 false sabre-tooth
 Carnivora - Canidae
Leptocyon douglassi n. sp. Tedford et al. 2009 canine
"2 miles southeast of Canyon Ferry"
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Miohippus sp. Marsh 1874 anchitheriine horse
 Artiodactyla - Merycoidodontidae
Merycoides sp. Douglass 1907 oreodont
Mesoreodon sp. Scott 1893 oreodont
Megoreodon sp. Schultz and Falkenbach 1954 oreodont