Bert Creek (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Granite/Powell County, Montana (46.4° N, 113.0° W: paleocoordinates 47.1° N, 110.0° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: R. H. Tedford, T. Galusha, M. F. Skinner, B. E. Taylor, R. W. Fields, J. R. Macdonald, J. M. Rensberger, S. D. Webb, and D. P. Whistler. 1987. Faunal succession and biochronology of the Arikareean through Hemphillian interval (late Oligocene through earliest Pliocene epochs) in North America. In M. O. Woodburne (ed.), Cenozoic Mammals of North America: Geochronology and Biostratigraphy 153-210 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 18812: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.07.1994

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Taxonomic list

• not the same as the Bert Creek fauna from the Cabbage Patch Beds (see)
could be in either county
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Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Pliohippus sp., Megahippus sp., Hypohippus sp.
Pliohippus sp. Marsh 1874 horse
Megahippus sp. McGrew 1938 anchitheriine horse
Hypohippus sp. Leidy 1858 anchitheriine horse
 Artiodactyla - Antilocapridae
Merycodus sp.
Merycodus sp. Leidy 1854 pronghorn
 Proboscidea - Proboscidea
Proboscidea indet.
Proboscidea indet. proboscidean