Kelly Road (Miocene of the United States)

Also known as T56-18; USGS 20766

Where: Teton County, Wyoming (43.9° N, 110.8° W: paleocoordinates 44.5° N, 107.8° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Teewinot Formation, Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Reposited in the USGS

Primary reference: C. W. Hibbard. 1959. Late Cenozoic Microtine Rodents from Wyoming and Idaho. Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters 44:3-40 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details

PaleoDB collection 18938: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.03.1995

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Taxonomic list

• named as Kelly Road fauna by Hibbard 1970a
KA date of 9.2 (= 9.4) Ma on an obsidian grit 106' below the fauna reported by Evernden et al. 1964
Mammalia
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Goniodontomys disjunctus1 Wilson 1937 mouse
Cricetinae indet.2 Fischer von Waldheim 1817 mouse
 Rodentia - Castoridae
Dipoides stirtoni Wilson 1934 beaver
reported as "D. sp." by Hibbard 1970a but as D. stirtoni by Repenning 1987
 Theriamorpha - Soricidae
Hesperosorex lovei n. sp. Hibbard 1957 red-toothed shrew
see Hibbard 1957b