Mouth of Bear Creek 1 ( of the United States)
Where: Cherry County, Nebraska (42.8° N, 100.8° W: paleocoordinates 43.6° N, 95.7° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Harrison Formation, Harrisonian (24.8 - 18.5 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Primary reference: M. F. Skinner and F. W. Johnson. 1984. Tertiary stratigraphy and the Frick Collection of fossil vertebrates from north-central Nebraska. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 178(3):1-368 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 17806: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 30.04.1994
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• from about 1/2 mi N of other Mouth of Bear Creek localities but relative stratigraphic is unambiguous
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| Mammalia | |
"Merychyus crabilli" = Merychyus calaminthus
"Merychyus crabilli" = Merychyus calaminthus Jahns 1940 oreodont | |