Birch Creek (Glenns Ferry Formation): Blancan, Idaho
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Castoridae
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Procastoroides sp.
Barbour and Schultz 1937
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Felidae
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Homotherium sp.
Fabrini 1890
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Canis sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Mustelidae
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Trigonictis sp.
Hibbard 1941
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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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Morejohn and Dailey 2004 | ||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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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 |
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
Formation: | Glenns Ferry |
Lithology and environment
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
Taxonomic list comments:fauna includes 271 localities and more than 3000 "identified mammalian specimens," so list almost certainly omits many taxa "tuffs from the study area" dated at 2.4 +/- 0.2 Ma (FT) |
Metadata
Database number: | 19921 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot | Enterer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 1998-10-13 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-06-03 03:27:44 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1998-10-13 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
1814. | J. Hearst. 1998. Depositional environments of the Birch Creek Local Fauna (Pliocene: Blancan), Owyhee County, Idaho. Idaho Museum of Natural History Occasional Papers 36:56-93 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
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] |