Sixty Six 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: Arikareean (30.8 - 20.4 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Primary reference: C. C. Black. 1961. New rodents from the early Miocene deposits of SixtySix Mountain, Wyoming. Breviora 146 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]more details
PaleoDB collection 17666: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.07.1994
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• from the "Brule clay" of Schlaikjer 1935b, which Black believes to be a Gering equivalent and therefore presumably what Schlaikjer calls lowermost "Harrison" in other parts of the Goshen Hole
entirely from a locality at the far western edge of the mountain not discussed by Schlaikjer
NISP 6
entirely from a locality at the far western edge of the mountain not discussed by Schlaikjer
NISP 6
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Mammalia | |
"Cyclopidius sp." = Leptauchenia, "Mesoreodon cheeki" = Mesoreodon minor
"Cyclopidius sp." = Leptauchenia Leidy 1856 oreodont
"Mesoreodon cheeki" = Mesoreodon minor Douglass 1903 oreodont | |
"Heliscomys schlaikjeri n. sp." = Proharrymys schlaikjeri
"Heliscomys schlaikjeri n. sp." = Proharrymys schlaikjeri Black 1961 rodent redescribed by Wahlert 1984
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Eumys cf. elegans Leidy 1856 mouse
Scottimus kellamorum n. sp. Black 1961 mouse |