Roy Saunders Locality (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Teton County, Wyoming (43.9° N, 110.8° W: paleocoordinates 44.7° N, 107.0° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: between Units 5 and 28 Member (Colter Formation), Early/Lower Hemingfordian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• said to be early Hemingfordian

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: A. D. Barnosky. 1986. Arikareean, Hemingfordian, and Barstovian Mammals From the Miocene Colter Formation, Jackson Hole, Teton County, Wyoming. Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History 26:1-69 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details

PaleoDB collection 19046: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 30.04.1994

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
? Oxydactylus sp. Peterson 1904 camel
 Artiodactyla - Merycoidodontidae
Merychyus cf. elegans Leidy 1858 oreodont
described as "M. arenarum" by Colbert 1943 and "M. sp." from "Lincoln Co." by Schultz and Falkenbach 1947