Usage:
Whitneyan age*
A provincial North American land mammal age (NALMA). Between Orellan and Arikareean.
Geologic age:
Tertiary
Oligocene, late
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Name based on Whitney Member of Brule Formation, type locality, Whitney, southwestern NE (Wood and others, 1941).
AAPG geologic province:
North America
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Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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