Saratoga Valley (Montagne & Barnes) (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Carbon County, Wyoming (41.8° N, 107.0° W: paleocoordinates 42.1° N, 105.3° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: North Park Formation, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. A. Izett. 1975. Late Cenozoic sedimentation and deformation in northern Colorado and adjoining areas. Geological Society of America Memoir 144:179-209 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 19044: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 27.09.1993

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Taxonomic list

• second of three collections
Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equinae indet. Steinmann and Döderlein 1890 horse
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Camelidae indet. Gray 1821 camel
 Artiodactyla - Merycoidodontidae
Merychyus sp. Leidy 1858 oreodont
 Artiodactyla - Antilocapridae
Merycodus sp. Leidy 1854 pronghorn
probably OK
 Rodentia - Castoridae
Eucastor sp. Allen 1877 beaver