Pekania occulta type locality (Neogene of the United States)

Where: Grant County, Oregon (44.5° N, 119.6° W: paleocoordinates 44.5° N, 116.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Rattlesnake Formation, late Early Hemphillian (10.3 - 4.9 Ma)

• "Lower fanglomerate member of the Rattlesnake Formation..."

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; brown, red siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (float)

Primary reference: J. X. Samuels and J. Cavin. 2013. The Earliest Known Fisher (Mustelidae), a New Species From the Rattlesnake Formation of Oregon. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33(2):448-454 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 163572: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 04.11.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Carnivora - Mustelidae
Pekania occulta n. sp. Samuels and Cavin 2013 mustelid carnivore