Where: Goshen County, Wyoming (42.0° N, 104.2° W: paleocoordinates 42.9° N, 99.2° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
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: 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 17817: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 30.04.1994
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
"500 feet above the Brule-lower Harrison contact"
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Parahippus wyomingensis n. sp.
Parahippus wyomingensis n. sp. Schlaikjer 1935 anchitheriine horse | |
Miotapirus harrisonensis n. sp.2
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Merychyus minimus Peterson 1907 oreodont about one mile NE of the main locality and "at exactly the same level"
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