Rahn Farm (Eocene of the United States)

Also known as Eureka Valley Road (USGS f158; MV 6403)

Where: Gallatin County, Montana (45.9° N, 111.6° W: paleocoordinates 47.7° N, 102.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: middle Member (Climbing Arrow Formation), Early/Lower Chadronian (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

• from the "middle white unit"

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siltstone

• formation is "thick-bedded white to grayish-yellow tuffaceous siltstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USGS

• Rahn Farm and Eureka Valley Road are distinct localities, but collections are lumped by Tabrum et al.

Primary reference: A. R. Tabrum, R. Nichols, and A. D. Barnosky. 2001. Tertiary paleontology of southwest Montana and adjacent Idaho. Museum of the Rockies Occasional Paper 3:93-112 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 27245: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 24.11.2002

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Theriamorpha - Herpetotheriidae
Herpetotherium valens Lambe 1908 marsupial
Copedelphys titanelix Matthew 1903 marsupial
 Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
Brontotheriidae indet. Marsh 1873 brontothere
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Mesohippus sp. Marsh 1875 anchitheriine horse
 Artiodactyla - Leptomerycidae
"Leptomeryx" aff. speciosus Lambe 1908 ruminant
"Leptomeryx" cf. yoderi Schlaikjer 1935 ruminant
 Artiodactyla - Merycoidodontidae
Merycoidodon sp. Leidy 1848 oreodont
Limnenetes platyceps Douglass 1902 oreodont
 Theriamorpha - Soricidae
Domnina cf. gradata Cope 1873 shrew
 Theriamorpha - Micropternodontidae
Micropternodus borealis Matthew 1903 placental
 Theriamorpha - Oligoryctidae
Oligoryctes cameronensis Hough 1956 placental
 Theriamorpha - Geolabididae
Centetodon kuenzii Lillegraven et al. 1981 placental
 Rodentia - Cylindrodontidae
Pseudocylindrodon sp. Burke 1935 rodent
said to be new
 Rodentia - Ischyromyidae
Ischyromys douglassi Black 1968 rodent
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Palaeolagus cf. temnodon Douglass 1902 rabbit