Also known as Kennesaw
Where: Logan County, Colorado (40.9° N, 103.5° W: paleocoordinates 41.5° N, 100.3° W)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Pawnee Creek Formation, Barstovian (16.3 - 12.5 Ma)
• "lower part of Pawnee Creek formation, associated with Kennesaw local fauna, Upper Miocene" and therefore Barstovian, but physically nowhere near the Kennesaw collections per se
Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by E. C. Galbreath
• Southern Illinois University collection postdating Galbreath 1953
Primary reference: P. Brodkorb. 1972. Neogene fossil jays from the Great Plains. The Condor 74(3):347-349 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 74627: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 17.08.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Aves | |
Miocitta galbreathi n. gen. n. sp.
Miocitta galbreathi n. gen. n. sp. Brodkorb 1972 perching bird |