Also known as Olcott Hill
Where: Sioux County, Nebraska (42.4° N, 103.8° W: paleocoordinates 42.9° N, 101.2° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Murphy Member (Snake Creek Formation), Clarendonian (13.6 - 10.3 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Collected by H. J. Cook, M. F. Skinner in 1917, 1972; reposited in the AMNH
Primary reference: M. F. Skinner, S. M. Skinner, and R. J. Gooris. 1977. Stratigraphy and biostratigraphy of late Cenozoic deposits in central Sioux County, western Nebraska. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 158(5):263-370 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 18300: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.03.1995
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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"Merychyus major" = Ustatochoerus major1
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