Monarch Mill (Lower) (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Churchill County, Nevada (39.5° N, 118.5° W: paleocoordinates 40.2° N, 115.7° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: lower Member (Monarch Mill Formation), Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: T. S. Kelly and E. B. Lander. 1988. Biostratigraphy and Correlation of Hemingfordian and Barstovian Land Mammal Assemblages, Caliente Formation, Cuyama Valley Area, California. In W. J. M. Bazeley (ed.), Tertiary Tectonics and Sedimentation in the Cuyama Basin, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and Ventura Counties, California 1-19 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details

PaleoDB collection 18981: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.03.1995

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Merycoidodontidae
Merychyus elegans Leidy 1858 oreodont