Bear Creek ( of the United States)

Where: Platte County, Wyoming (42.1° N, 105.0° W: paleocoordinates 43.0° N, 100.0° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Harrisonian (24.8 - 18.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: F. B. Loomis. 1936. The skeleton of a new fossil camel from Wyoming. University of Wyoming Publications 2(5):59-64 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details

PaleoDB collection 17759: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993

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Taxonomic list

• "several miles southwest of the Harding Ranch"
this is on Bear Creek, south of Bear Creek Mountain and not on it (see)
see McKenna 1966 for locality information
Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Oxydactylus wyomingensis Loomis 1936 camel