UNSM Sf-101 (Lower Orella) (Oligocene of the United States)

Where: Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska (41.8° N, 103.8° W: paleocoordinates 43.0° N, 95.8° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: lower Orella Member (Brule Formation), Orellan (33.9 - 33.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Reposited in the UNSM

Primary reference: X. Wang. 1994. Phylogenetic systematics of the Hesperocyoninae (Carnivora: Canidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 221:1-207 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 17201: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 05.08.1996

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Taxonomic list

• entire fauna could be from Orella B
Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Merycoidodontidae
Miniochoerus affinis1 Leidy 1869 oreodont
includes their "M. battlecreekensis" and "Platyochoerus platycephalus"
Miniochoerus gracilis1 Leidy 1851 oreodont
"Merycoidodon culbertsoni" = Merycoidodon culbertsonii2 Leidy 1848 oreodont
"Merycoidodon culbertsoni osborni": also their "Otionohyus wardi" and "Genetochoerus periculorum"
 Carnivora - Canidae
Hesperocyon gregarius Cope 1873 canid
Orella B