Also known as Procamelus elrodi type locality; Lower Madison Valley
Where: Gallatin County, Montana (45.7° N, 111.5° W: paleocoordinates 46.4° N, 108.3° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Barstovian (16.3 - 12.5 Ma)
• It was found by the writer in a pinkish, fine-grained stratum beneath river deposits of conglomerate and sand, which are exposed in the bluffs on the east side of the lower Madison Valley in Montana nearly east of Hyde Post-office.
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; fine-grained, red shale and sandy conglomerate
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by E. Douglass in 1902; reposited in the CM
Primary reference: E. Douglass. 1909. Description of a New Species of Procamelus From the Upper Miocene of Montana with Notes Upon Procamelus madisonius Douglass. Annals of Carnegie Museum 5(5):159-165 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 189002: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 25.09.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Protolabis montanus n. sp." = Miolabis montanus, "Procamelus elrodi n. sp." = Aepycamelus elrodi
"Protolabis montanus n. sp." = Miolabis montanus Douglass 1899 camel "Dug from a clay cliff. Miocene lake beds, lower Madison valley, Montana."
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