Where: Goshen County, Wyoming (42.0° N, 104.2° W: paleocoordinates 42.9° N, 98.4° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Lower Member (Harrison Formation), Arikareean (29.5 - 18.5 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: E. M. Schlaikjer. 1935. Contributions to the Stratigraphy and Palaeontology of the Goshen Hole Area, Wyoming. III. A New Basal Oligocene Formation. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 76(3):71-93 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 17574: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 30.04.1994
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
"15 feet above the Brule-lower Harrison contact"; said by Wang et al. 1999 to be in the lower Arikaree Group
locality overlooks the North Platte River
probably does not include Leptauchenia decora from "North Platte River" of Thorpe 1921b
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Archaeocyon leptodus Schlaikjer 1935 bone-crushing dog | |