Platygonus pearcei Quarry ( of the United States)

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

• no details given
• no details given

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

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Tayassuidae
Platygonus pearcei n. sp. Gazin 1938 peccary