Vim-Peetz (Miocene to of the United States)

Where: Logan County, Colorado (40.8° N, 103.1° W: paleocoordinates 41.3° N, 100.3° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Pawnee Creek Beds Formation, Barstovian to Barstovian (16.3 - 9.4 Ma)

• JA: Barstovian to Clarendonian based on AEO results

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Primary reference: E. C. Galbreath. 1953. A contribution to the Tertiary geology and paleontology of northeastern Colorado. University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions Vertebrata 4:1-120 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 18445: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.03.1995, edited by Jonathan Marcot

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Taxonomic list

• overlies Kennesaw and equivalent to Pawnee Buttes; Ogallala Group overlying Pawnee Creek Fm. sensu stricto: Woodburne 1996a
"probable" occurrences: Pseudaelurus intrepidus "Merychippus" proplacidus "Merychippus" campestris Teleoceras "medicornutus" (sic)
Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Proboscidea
Proboscidea indet. proboscidean
 Carnivora - Mustelidae
Plionictis ogygia Matthew 1901 mustelid carnivore
 Carnivora - Canidae
Borophaginae indet.1 Simpson 1945 bone-crushing dog
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparionini indet. Quinn 1955 hipparionine horse
"Merychippus" republicanus: i.d. not clearly established by Galbreath's description
Equini indet. Quinn 1955 horse
"advanced protohippine"
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Teleoceras medicornutum4 Osborn 1904 rhinoceros
Aphelops megalodus3 Cope 1873 rhinoceros
pers. commun.
 Artiodactyla - Merycoidodontidae
"Merychyus medius" = Ustatochoerus medius1
"Merychyus medius" = Ustatochoerus medius1 Leidy 1858 oreodont
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Aepycamelus giraffinus Matthew 1909 camel
 Artiodactyla - Antilocapridae
Ramoceros osborni Matthew 1904 pronghorn
 Theriamorpha - Talpidae
Domninoides sp.2 Green 1956 mole
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
 Rodentia - Mylagaulidae
Mylagaulidae indet.1 Cope 1881 rodent