Also known as 3 miles south of the Plesippus shoshonensis quarry
Where: Gooding County, Idaho (42.8° N, 114.9° W: paleocoordinates 43.0° N, 114.3° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Glenns Ferry Formation, Blancan (4.9 - 1.8 Ma)
• all material apparently is from the same slab, so bed-level resolution is assumed
•formation is given as "Hagerman lake beds" = Glenns Ferry in modern usage
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying,
• some taxa may be omitted, but illustrated slab is monospecific
Primary reference: C. L. Gazin. 1938. Fossil peccary remains from the upper Pliocene of Idaho. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 28(2):41-48 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 22938: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 03.07.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Platygonus pearcei n. sp.
Platygonus pearcei n. sp. Gazin 1938 peccary |