PBDB Collection

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Reptilia - Testudines - Emydidae

	Clemmys owyheensis n. sp. Brattstrom and Sturn 1959	Brattstrom and Sturn 1959
	synonym of Emys marmorata
	LACM CIT.5123 (holotype), an entoplastron (Brattstrom and Sturn 1959, pl. 21c); LACM CIT.5127 (paratype), an entoplastron (not figured); LACM CIT. 5124–5126 (paratypes), three epiplastra (not figured)
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Proboscidea

	Mammutidae indet. Hay 1922
	= Proboscidea indet. Illiger 1811	Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae

	Dipoides stirtoni n. sp. Wilson 1934
	see Wilson 1934b (1 measurement)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Zapodidae

	Pliozapus solus Wilson 1936	Martin 1994
	new specimen
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae

	"Peromyscus" pliocenicus Wilson 1937	Jacobs and Lindsay 1984
	spelt "pliocaenicus"
	= Basirepomys romensis n. sp. Korth 2011	Korth 2011

	Goniodontomys disjunctus n. sp. Wilson 1937
	(1 measurement)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Mylagaulidae

	Mylagaulus cf. monodon Cope 1881
	= Hesperogaulus wilsoni Korth 1999	Korth 1999
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae

	Hypolagus sp. Dice 1917

	Hypolagus vetus (Kellogg 1910)
	confirmed by White 1988
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae

	Felidae informal indet. large Gray 1821
	large

	Felidae informal indet. small Gray 1821
	small
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae

	Borophagus pugnator (Cook 1922)	Wang et al. 1999
	"Aelurodon-Osteoborus group"

	Aelurodon sp. Leidy 1858
	= Epicyon haydeni Leidy 1858	Wang et al. 1999
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae

	Lutravus cf. halli Furlong 1932

	Lutra sp. Brisson 1762
	= Lutrini indet. Gray 1865	Alroy 2002

	Plionictis ogygia (Matthew 1901)
Mammalia - Camelidae

	Camelidae informal indet. large Gray 1821
	large

	Camelidae informal indet. small Gray 1821
	small
Mammalia - Tayassuidae

	Prosthennops sp. Matthew and Gidley 1904
	(1 measurement)
	= Prosthennops ? serus Cope 1877	Colbert 1938
	from CIT 62
Mammalia

	Cervidae indet. Gray 1821
	= Ruminantia indet. Scopoli 1777	Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Antilocapridae

	Sphenophalos nevadanus Merriam 1909
	= Plioceros sp. Frick 1937	Frick 1937
	described by Furlong 1932; also his material from "Harper" in Malheur County
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae

	Teleoceras sp. Hatcher 1894
	"T. fossiger?"
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae

	Pliohippus spectans (Cope 1880)
	recombined as Dinohippus spectans
Mammalia - Soricidae

	Paracryptotis rex Hibbard 1950	Repenning 1967
	M1078

	Limnoecus cf. tricuspis Stirton 1930	Repenning 1967
	M1078
Mammalia - Talpidae

	? Scapanus sp. Pomel 1848
	repeated by Hutchison 1968
see common names

Geography

Country:	United States	State/province:	Oregon	County:	Malheur
Coordinates:	43.6° North, 117.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	44.2° North, 115.0° West
Basis of coordinate:	based on political unit

Time

Period:	Neogene	Epoch:	Miocene
10 m.y. bin:	Cenozoic 5-6
*Period:	Tertiary
Key time interval:	Late/Upper Clarendonian
Age range of interval:	12.50000 - 9.40000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields

Stratigraphy

Stratigraphy comments: JA: traditionally early Hemphillian; late Clarendonian based on AEO results

Lithology and environment

Primary lithology:	not reported
Environment:	terrestrial indet.

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:

body

Collection methods and comments

Reason for describing collection:	taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:	USGS
Taxonomic list comments:also additional castorid, "? Castor sp."; provenance is suspect according to Wilson 1937b

Metadata

Also known as:	CIT 62; USGS M1078
Database number:	19036
Authorizer:	J. Alroy, J. Marcot, E. Vlachos	Enterer:	J. Alroy, J. Marcot, E. Vlachos
Modifier:	J. Alroy	Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	1993-09-27 00:00:00	Last modified:	2009-12-20 13:26:06
Access level:	the public	Released:	1993-09-27 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:	CC BY

Reference information

Primary reference:

3684.

R. W. Wilson. 1937. New middle Pliocene rodent and lagomorph faunas from Oregon and California. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 487(1):2-19 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/C. Bell]

Secondary references:

6294		J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
64772		B. H. Brattstrom and A. Sturn. 1959. A new species of fossil turtle from the Pliocene of Oregon, with notes on other fossil Clemmys from western North America. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 58(2):65-71 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]
1252		E. H. Colbert. 1938. Pliocene peccaries from the Pacific Coast region of North America. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 487(6):241-269 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]
6222		C. Frick. 1937. Horned ruminants of North America. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 69:1-669 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
2007		L. L. Jacobs and E. H. Lindsay. 1984. Holarctic Radiation of Neogene Muroid Rodents and the Origin of South American Cricetids. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 4(2) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
2137		W. W. Korth. 1999. Hesperogaulus, a new genus of mylagaulid rodent (Mammalia) from the Miocene (Barstovian to Hemphillian) of the Great Basin. Journal of Paleontology 73(5):945-951 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]
57584		W. W. Korth. 2011. New Species of Cricetid Rodents (Mammalia) from the Late Miocene (Hemphillian) Previously Referred to Peromyscus pliocenicus Wilson. Annals of Carnegie Museum 79(2):137-147 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]
2444		R. A. Martin. 1994. National Science Museum Monographs 8:99-113 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
2869		C. A. Repenning. 1967. Subfamilies and genera of the Soricidae. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 565:1-74 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
3558		X. Wang, R. H. Tedford, and B. E. Taylor. 1999. Phylogenetic systematics of the Borophaginae (Carnivora: Canidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 243:1-392 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]