Joe Sanford Ranch ( of the United States)

Where: Sioux County, Nebraska (42.4° N, 103.8° W: paleocoordinates 43.3° N, 98.0° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Arikareean (30.8 - 20.4 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: C. B. Schultz and C. H. Falkenbach. 1968. The Phylogeny of the Oreodonts. Part 1: Merycoidodontinae, Eporeodontinae, and Leptaucheniinae, Three Subfamilies Of Oreodonts, With an Appendix to the Revision Of The Merycoidodontidae, and Part 2. Summary and Conclusions Concerning the Merycoidodontidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 139:1-498 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details

PaleoDB collection 17604: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.03.1995

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Taxonomic list

• just above NPAZ based on occurrence of "parasimus": see Tedford et al. 1985
North Platte river drainage
Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Merycoidodontidae
"Desmatochoerus sanfordi n. sp." = Mesoreodon minor2, "Mesoreodon cheeki" = Mesoreodon minor1, "Leptauchenia parasimus" = Leptauchenia decora
"Desmatochoerus sanfordi n. sp." = Mesoreodon minor2 Douglass 1903 oreodont
Gering Fm.
"Mesoreodon cheeki" = Mesoreodon minor1 Douglass 1903 oreodont
"Leptauchenia parasimus" = Leptauchenia decora Leidy 1856 oreodont
"upper Gering" at "Joe Sanford Ranch, N. of Mitchell"