Canyon Ferry Reservoir Earl Douglass Location (Miocene of the United States)
Where: Broadwater County, Montana (46.1° N, 111.3° W: paleocoordinates 47.0° N, 107.4° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Hemingfordian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Primary reference: T. E. White. 1954. Preliminary Analysis of the Fossil Vertebrates of the Canyon Ferry Reservoir Area. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 103(3326):395-438 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details
PaleoDB collection 17885: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002, edited by Jonathan Marcot and Evangelos Vlachos
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Taxonomic list
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? Merychippus missouriensis n. sp.2
? Merychippus missouriensis n. sp.2 Douglass 1908 horse referred to as an "advanced... Merychippus" by White (1954)
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"Promerycochoerus grandis n. sp." = Megoreodon grandis5, Desmatochoerus hatcheri n. sp.4, Merycoides cursor n. gen. n. sp.1
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| Reptilia | |
"Testudo inusitata n. sp." = Stylemys inusitata3
"Testudo inusitata n. sp." = Stylemys inusitata3 Hay 1906 turtle CM 311 (holotype), a partial shell (Hay 1906b, pls. 3–4; Hay 1908, pl. 68)
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