Woodin ( of the United States)

Where: Silver Bow County, Montana (45.8° N, 112.6° W: paleocoordinates 46.9° N, 107.5° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Harrisonian (24.8 - 18.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: A. E. Wood. 1936. Geomyid rodents from the Middle Tertiary. American Museum Novitates 866 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]more details

PaleoDB collection 17861: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.03.1995, edited by Jonathan Marcot

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
"Altippus taxus n. gen. n. sp." = Miohippus taxus2
"Altippus taxus n. gen. n. sp." = Miohippus taxus2 Douglass 1908 anchitheriine horse
CM 836; "...found by the writer near the little railroad station of Woodin on Divide Creek, about six miles south of the continental divide, in Silver Bow County, Montana"
 Artiodactyla - Merycoidodontidae
"Ticholeptus breviceps n. sp." = Hypsiops brachymelis1, "Merychyus siouxensis" = Paramerychyus harrisonensis3
"Ticholeptus breviceps n. sp." = Hypsiops brachymelis1 Douglass 1907 oreodont
"about one mile southeast of Woodin on Divide Creek six or seven miles south of the Continental Divide in Silver Bow County, Montana."
"Merychyus siouxensis" = Paramerychyus harrisonensis3 Peterson 1907 oreodont
1/2 mi E of Woodin
 Rodentia - Entoptychidae
Gregorymys douglassi n. sp. Wood 1936 rodent
from "Goodin, about three or four miles north of Divide"; from Woodin according to Wahlert and Souza 1988