Skillet Creek (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Donley County, Texas (35.0° N, 100.8° W: paleocoordinates 35.5° N, 97.9° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: G. E. Schultz. 1990. Stop 14: The Clarendonian faunas of the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles. In T. C. Gustavson (ed.), Tertiary and Quaternary stratigraphy and vertebrate paleontology of parts of northwestern Texas and eastern New Mexico; Guidebook - Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas at Austin 83-93 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

PaleoDB collection 18375: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 05.08.1992

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Gomphotherium obscurum Leidy 1869 mastodon
 Carnivora - Amphicyonidae
Ischyrocyon gidleyi n. sp. Matthew 1902 bear-dog
see Matthew 1902a, Gidley 1903