Where: Dawes County, Nebraska (42.8° N, 103.1° W: paleocoordinates 43.5° N, 99.4° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Runningwater Formation, Early/Lower Hemingfordian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by F. V. Hayden in 1857; reposited in the ANSP
Primary reference: C. B. Schultz and C. H. Falkenbach. 1940. Merycochoerinae, a new subfamily of oreodonts. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 77(5):213-306 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 234755: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 14.05.2024
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Merycochoerus proprius n. gen. n. sp., Merychyus elegans n. gen. n. sp.
Merycochoerus proprius n. gen. n. sp. Leidy 1858 oreodont
Merychyus elegans n. gen. n. sp. Leidy 1858 oreodont |