Castle Butte: Blancan, Idaho
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Hypolagus furlongi
Gazin 1934
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Pliopotamys idahoensis
(Wilson 1933)
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= Ondatra idahoensis
Wilson 1933
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Ophiomys parvus
(Wilson 1933)
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Synaptomys vetus
Wilson 1933
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= Mictomys vetus
Wilson 1933
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Heteromyidae
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Dipodomys sp.
Gray 1841
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= Dipodomyinae indet.
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
| could be Prodipodomys | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Castoridae
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Procastoroides idahoensis
Shotwell 1970
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Mustelidae
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Trigonictis sp.
Hibbard 1941
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Mammalia
- Talpidae
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Scapanus aff. townsendii
(Bachman 1839)
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Mammalia
- Soricidae
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Soricidae indet.
Fischer 1814
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Reptilia
- Colubridae
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Thamnophis sp.
Fitzinger 1843
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Gilmore 1938 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| USNM 13776, one vertebra (lower Pliocene) | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Idaho | County: | Owyhee |
| Coordinates: | 43.0° North, 118.0° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 43.1° North, 117.4° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| *Period: | Tertiary | *Epoch: | Pliocene |
| Key time interval: | Blancan | ||
| Age range of interval: | 4.70000 - 1.40000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Local section: | Owyhe | Local bed: | 3 |
| Local order: | bottom to top |
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | bulk,sieve |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:type of Erethizon bathygnathum of Wilson 1935 is from Castle Butte but not from UO 2393 | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | UO 2393 | ||
| Database number: | 19910 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy, P. Barrett | Enterer: | J. Alroy, T. Cleary |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2007-09-07 20:50:42 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 3118. | J. A. Shotwell. 1970. Pliocene mammals of southeast Oregon and adjacent Idaho. Bulletin of the Museum of Natural History, University of Oregon 17:1-103 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] |
Secondary references:
| 6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
| 14699 | C. W. Gilmore. 1938. Fossil snakes of North America. Geological Society of America Special Paper (9)1-96 [J. Head/J. Head] |