Where: Sioux County, Nebraska (42.4° N, 103.8° W: paleocoordinates 43.3° N, 98.8° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Marsland Formation (Hemingford Group), Harrisonian (24.8 - 18.5 Ma)
• = Upper Harrison beds
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: F. B. Loomis. 1924. Miocene oreodonts in the American Museum. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 51(1):1-37 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 17739: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.10.1995
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Merycochoerus magnus n. sp.
Merycochoerus magnus n. sp. Loomis 1924 oreodont "Upper Harrison beds, seven miles northeast of Agate"
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