West Morava Ranch ( of the United States)
Where: Box Butte County, Nebraska (42.2° N, 103.1° W: paleocoordinates 43.0° N, 98.0° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Harrison Formation (Arikaree Group), Harrisonian (24.8 - 18.5 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: mesofossils
Primary reference: C. B. Schultz and C. H. Falkenbach. 1947. Merychyinae, a subfamily of oreodonts. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 88(4):157-286 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 17856: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002, edited by Jonathan Marcot
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• said to be 8 mi W and 1 mi S of Marsland, which is just over the county line in Sioux Co.; in any event, this is very close to Morava Ranch Quarry
possibly related: "Mesoreodon megalodon" Schultz and Falkenbach 1949 "8 mi. W. of Marsland, Sioux County" in the supposed Monroe Creek Fm.
possibly related: "Mesoreodon megalodon" Schultz and Falkenbach 1949 "8 mi. W. of Marsland, Sioux County" in the supposed Monroe Creek Fm.
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Aletomeryx sp. Lull 1920 ruminant | |
"Merychyus crabilli n. sp." = Merychyus calaminthus
"Merychyus crabilli n. sp." = Merychyus calaminthus Jahns 1940 oreodont | |