Also known as Uncataloged ASU locality; locality SB1 of Lander, 1998
Where: Maricopa County, Arizona (33.9° N, 112.0° W: paleocoordinates 35.0° N, 106.7° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: early Late Arikareean to early Late Arikareean (30.8 - 20.4 Ma)
• said to be Orellan
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; tuff
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: E. B. Lander and E. H. Lindsay. 2011. Merychyus calaminthus (Mammalia, Artiodactyla, Oreodontidae) of probable early late Arikareean (late Oligocene to late early Miocene) age from the lower part of the Chalk Canyon Formation, Maricopa and Yavapai counties, central Arizona. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 31(1):215-226 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 157243: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 10.06.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Merychyus calaminthus Jahns 1940 oreodont |