Where: Beaver County, Oklahoma (36.8° N, 100.5° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 39.9° N, 94.8° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Ogallala Formation, Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: M. S. Stevens. 1966. The Osteology and Relationships of the Pliocene ground squirrel, Citellus dotti Hibbard, from the Ogallala, Formation of Beaver County, Oklahoma. Pearce-Sellards Series 4 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 18094: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 05.08.1992
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
NISP 4
Mammalia | |
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Nannippus aztecus Mooser 1968 hipparionine horse | |
Tayassuinae indet. Palmer 1897 peccary | |
"Citellus dotti" = Spermophilus dotti
"Citellus dotti" = Spermophilus dotti Hibbard 1954 ground squirrel |