Where: Goshen County, Wyoming (42.0° N, 104.2° W: paleocoordinates 42.9° N, 98.4° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Arikaree Group, early Early Arikareean to early Early Arikareean (30.8 - 20.4 Ma)
• said to be "Lower Harrison" by Schlaikjer 1935, but he didn't differentiate Gering, Monroe Creek, nor Harrison Formations. Probably Gering or Monroe Creek, so Ar1 or Ar2
• 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 17730: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 30.04.1994
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
"150 feet above the Brule-lower Harrison contact"
Mammalia | |
"Hypolagus primitivus n. sp." = Megalagus primitivus
"Hypolagus primitivus n. sp." = Megalagus primitivus Schlaikjer 1935 rabbit |