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 | |
Merychyus elegans Leidy 1858 oreodont |