Prickly Pear Creek (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Lewis and Clark County, Montana (46.7° N, 111.9° W: paleocoordinates 48.6° N, 102.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: White River Group, Early/Lower Chadronian (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

• "'White River' deposits"

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

• none given

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the CM

• collection "made by Earl Douglass in 1902"

Primary reference: S. G. Lucas and R. J. Emry. 2004. The entelodont Brachyhyops (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) from the Upper Eocene of Flagstaff Rim, Wyoming. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 26:97-100 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 68415: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 20.01.2007

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Taxonomic list

• identifications made by Alan Tabrum

•Ostrander 1985 reported a specimen of Brachyhyops that cannot be found in the CM collection, but might be in another one

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Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
"Menodus sp." = Megacerops
"Menodus sp." = Megacerops Leidy 1870 brontothere
 Perissodactyla - Tapiridae
Colodon sp.
Colodon sp. Marsh 1890 tapir
 Artiodactyla - Merycoidodontidae
Oreonetes sp.
Oreonetes sp. Loomis 1924 oreodont