Rome: Late/Upper Clarendonian, Oregon
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Emydidae
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Clemmys owyheensis n. sp.
Brattstrom and Sturn 1959
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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
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Mammutidae indet.
Hay 1922
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= Proboscidea indet.
Illiger 1811
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Castoridae
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Dipoides stirtoni n. sp.
Wilson 1934
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see Wilson 1934b (1 measurement) | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Zapodidae
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Pliozapus solus
Wilson 1936
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Martin 1994 | |||||||||
new specimen | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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"Peromyscus" pliocenicus
Wilson 1937
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Jacobs and Lindsay 1984 | |||||||||
spelt "pliocaenicus" | ||||||||||
= Basirepomys romensis n. sp.
Korth 2011
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Korth 2011 | |||||||||
Goniodontomys disjunctus n. sp.
Wilson 1937
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(1 measurement) | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Mylagaulidae
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Mylagaulus cf. monodon
Cope 1881
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= Hesperogaulus wilsoni
Korth 1999
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Korth 1999 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Hypolagus sp.
Dice 1917
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Hypolagus vetus
(Kellogg 1910)
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confirmed by White 1988 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Felidae
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Felidae informal indet. large
Gray 1821
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large | ||||||||||
Felidae informal indet. small
Gray 1821
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small | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Borophagus pugnator
(Cook 1922)
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Wang et al. 1999 | |||||||||
"Aelurodon-Osteoborus group" | ||||||||||
Aelurodon sp.
Leidy 1858
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= Epicyon haydeni
Leidy 1858
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Wang et al. 1999 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Mustelidae
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Lutravus cf. halli
Furlong 1932
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Lutra sp.
Brisson 1762
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= Lutrini indet.
Gray 1865
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
Plionictis ogygia
(Matthew 1901)
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Camelidae informal indet. large
Gray 1821
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large | ||||||||||
Camelidae informal indet. small
Gray 1821
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small | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Tayassuidae
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Prosthennops sp.
Matthew and Gidley 1904
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(1 measurement) | ||||||||||
= Prosthennops ? serus
Cope 1877
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Colbert 1938 | |||||||||
from CIT 62 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
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Cervidae indet.
Gray 1821
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= Ruminantia indet.
Scopoli 1777
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Antilocapridae
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Sphenophalos nevadanus
Merriam 1909
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= Plioceros sp.
Frick 1937
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Frick 1937 | |||||||||
described by Furlong 1932; also his material from "Harper" in Malheur County | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Teleoceras sp.
Hatcher 1894
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"T. fossiger?" | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Pliohippus spectans
(Cope 1880)
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recombined as Dinohippus spectans | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Soricidae
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Paracryptotis rex
Hibbard 1950
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Repenning 1967 | |||||||||
M1078 | ||||||||||
Limnoecus cf. tricuspis
Stirton 1930
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Repenning 1967 | |||||||||
M1078 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Talpidae
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? Scapanus sp.
Pomel 1848
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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] |