Where: Wheeler County, Oregon (44.9° N, 120.3° W: paleocoordinates 45.6° N, 107.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Big Basin Member (John Day Formation), Duchesnean (39.7 - 37.0 Ma)

• "Duchesnean (early late Eocene), between Member A Ignimbrite dated 39.22 ± 0.03 Ma (Bestland et al., 1999) and Whitecap Knoll Tuff dated 38.4 ± 0.7 Ma (Manchester, 2000)."

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: J. X. Samuels and W. W. Korth. 2017. The first Eocene rodents from the Pacific Northwest, USA. Palaeontologia Electronica 20.2.24A:1-17 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 185944: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 27.05.2017, edited by Jonathan Marcot

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