Also known as CM Locality #1935, Unit 16 microfossil quarry
Where: Park County, Montana (45.8° N, 110.5° W: paleocoordinates 46.5° N, 107.2° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Unit 16 Member (Hepburn's Mesa Formation), early Late Barstovian (16.3 - 12.5 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Size class: mesofossils
Reposited in the CM
Primary reference: D. W. Burbank and A. D. Barnosky. 1990. The magnetochronology of Barstovian mammals in southwestern Montana and implications for the initiation of Neogene crustal extension in the northern Rocky Mountains. Geological Society America Bulletin 102 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 18848: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
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Mesoscalops sp. Reed 1960 placental | |
Oreolagus sp. Dice 1917 pika | |
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Copemys sp. Wood 1936 mouse | |
Tardontia sp. Shotwell 1958 mountain beaver | |
Petauristodon sp. Engesser 1979 squirrel
Spermophilus sp. Cuvier 1825 ground squirrel | |
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Mojavemys sp. Lindsay 1972 pocket gopher | |
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Pseudotheridomys sp. Schlosser 1926 rodent |