Also known as John Day Formation
Where: Wheeler County, Oregon (44.8° N, 119.7° W: paleocoordinates 44.5° N, 110.8° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Haystack Valley Member (John Day Formation), early Late Arikareean (29.5 - 18.5 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray, green tuff and gray, green siltstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Reposited in the UCMP
Primary reference: D. S. Berman. 1976. A new amphisbaenian (Reptilia: Amphisbaenia) from the Oligocene-Miocene John Day Formation, Oregon,. Journal of Paleontology 50(1):165-174 [C. Bell/C. Bell]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 180567: authorized by Paul Barrett, entered by Terri Cleary on 21.07.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Dyticonastis rensbergeri Berman 1976 worm lizard UCMP 76883, nearly complete skull with left mandible
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