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Found Here
Geologic setting
- Formation
- Salt Lake
- Geologic interval
- Blancan to Irvingtonian
- Age
- 4.7–0.21 Ma
- Depositional environment
- terrestrial indet.
- Recorded occurrences
- 6
Marsh Creek Valley
Fossils found here
Records and references
Data: Paleobiology Database collection 20430 (CC BY 4.0) — view the source record
Difficulty
Getting there
Location on Map
Coordinates: 42.50000, -112.10000
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