Wild Horse Butte: Blancan, Idaho
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Gomphotheriidae
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Stegomastodon mirificus
(Leidy 1858)
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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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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Castoridae
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Castor accessor
Hay 1927
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= Castor californicus
Kellogg 1911
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Geomyidae
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Thomomys sp.
Wied-Neuwied 1839
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Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Hypolagus furlongi
Gazin 1934
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Felidae
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? Homotherium idahoensis
(Merriam 1918)
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Mammalia
- Cervidae
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Cervus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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= Odocoileus lucasi
Hay 1927
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Mammalia
- Tayassuidae
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Platygonus sp.
Leconte 1848
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Hemiauchenia sp.
Gervais and Ameghino 1880
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Plesippus idahoensis
(Merriam 1918)
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= Equus idahoensis
Merriam 1918
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
| recombined as Plesippus idahoensis | ||||||||||
| no reason to question this based on Downs and Miller 1994 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Megalonychidae
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Megalonyx leptostomus
Cope 1893
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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 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | UO 2396 | ||
| Database number: | 19911 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot | Enterer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2007-09-07 20:51:40 |
| 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] | |
| 83085 | G. V. Morejohn and D. C. Dailey. 2004. The identify and postcranial osteology of Odocoileus lucasi (Hay) 1927: A Plio-Pleistocene Deer from California and Idaho. Sierra College Natural History Museum Bulletin 1:1-53 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot] |