Big Hole River: Chadronian, Montana

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Merycoidodontidae
Oreonetes anceps (Douglass 1902)
    = Oreonetes (anceps) douglassi Schultz and Falkenbach 1956
Schultz and Falkenbach 1956
CM 11256
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Montana County:Beaverhead
Coordinates: 45.0° North, 112.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:46.9° North, 104.0° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Priabonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 3
*Period:Tertiary *Local age/stage:Chadronian
Key time interval:Chadronian
Age range of interval:37.00000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: said to be Chadronian
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:16909
Authorizer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot Enterer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:2002-05-15 00:00:00 Last modified:2006-09-13 00:54:15
Access level:the public Released:2002-05-15 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

3430. M. R. Thorpe. 1937. The Merycoidodontidae, an extinct group of ruminant mammals. Peabody Museum of Natural History Memoir 3(4):1-428 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

3068 C. B. Schultz and C. H. Falkenbach. 1956. Miniochoerinae and Oreonetinae two new subfamilies of oreodonts. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 109(4):373-482 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]