South Canadian River Procamelus Site (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Roger Mills County, Oklahoma (35.8° N, 99.6° W: paleocoordinates 36.3° N, 96.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ogallala Formation, Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)

• apparently somewhere "in the lower 63 m of Ogallala section"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; fine-grained, brown, yellow sandstone

• "predominantly yellowish-brown, evenly bedded fine-grained quartz sands"

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

• "excavated... completely encased" within the sediments

Primary reference: H. Kirkland, Jr. 1993. A complete Tertiary camel skull from Roger Mills County: description and CT scan. Proceedings of the Oklahoma Academy of Science 73:63-65 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 70133: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.03.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• additional material described by Kirkland 1997
Show authors, comments, and common names
Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Procamelus cf. grandis
Procamelus cf. grandis Gregory 1939 camel