Where: Grand County, Colorado (40.2° N, 106.1° W: paleocoordinates 40.8° N, 103.2° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Troublesome Formation, Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)
• Troublesome Formation is 23.5 to 11Ma according to dated tuffs at top and bottom (Izett & Obradovich 2001)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. Munthe. 1988. Miocene mammals of the Split Rock area, Granite Mountains basin, central Wyoming. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 126:1-136 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 18941: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 27.09.1993
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Brachyerix macrotis Matthew 1933 hedgehog | |
Harrymys sp. Munthe 1988 rodent | |
Protospermophilus kelloggi Black 1963 squirrel |