Where: Meagher County, Montana (46.5° N, 111.0° W: paleocoordinates 47.6° N, 105.1° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Arikareean (30.8 - 20.4 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
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
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 17722: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 05.08.1996, edited by Jonathan Marcot
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Cyclopidius emydinus" = Leptauchenia major, "Promerycochoerus latidens" = Promerycochoerus superbus1
"Cyclopidius emydinus" = Leptauchenia major Leidy 1856 oreodont "west of White Sulphur Springs" in "upper Gering" equivalent
"Promerycochoerus latidens" = Promerycochoerus superbus1 Leidy 1870 oreodont "S. of road between 1st and 2d wash W. of White Sulphur Springs"
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