Raw Hide Buttes (Upper Harrison) ( of the United States)

Where: Niobrara County, Wyoming (43.0° N, 104.5° W: paleocoordinates 43.9° N, 98.7° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Arikareean (29.5 - 18.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. S. Riggs. 1945. Some early Miocene carnivores. Geological Series, Field Museum of Natural History 9(3):69-114 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Wertheim]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 17822: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.03.1995

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Taxonomic list

• see note above
Mammalia
 Carnivora - Mustelidae
Promartes lepidus Matthew 1907 mustelid carnivore
"Upper Harrison beds"
 Artiodactyla - Tayassuidae
Pediohyus ferus n. sp.1 Loomis 1910 peccary
"in the 'breaks' about two miles southeast of the Raw Hide Buttes in Converse Co... Upper Harrison Beds"; status unclear in light of Wright 1998
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Oxydactylus lulli n. sp.2 Loomis 1911 camel
"in the 'breaks' about five miles south of the Raw Hide Buttes"; "Upper Harrison" beds