White Bluffs: Blancan, Washington

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Mammut americanum (Kerr 1792)
Mammalia - Megalonychidae
Megalonyx rohrmanni Gustafson 1978
synonym of Megalonyx leptostomus
(3 measurements)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus cf. simplicidens Cope 1892
recombined as Plesippus simplicidens
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Teleoceras hicksi Cook 1927
Gustafson 2012
UW C1399
Mammalia - Cervidae
Bretzia pseudalces n. sp. Fry and Gustafson 1974
Mammalia - Camelidae
Hemiauchenia sp. Gervais and Ameghino 1880
Megatylopus cf. cochrani (Hibbard and Riggs 1949)
(1 measurement)
Mammalia - Tayassuidae
Platygonus pearcei Gazin 1938
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Felis sp. Linnaeus 1758
    = Felinae indet. Trouessart 1885
Alroy 2002
Machairodontinae indet. Gill 1872
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Plionarctos harroldorum n. sp. Tedford and Martin 2001
Tedford and Martin 2001
LACM 3879; also at Ringold Flat (SDSM V-8644), Savage Island (SDSM V-8645), UWBM A3036, UWBM A9292, and UWBM A8814; "Ursus cf. abstrusus" (1 measurement)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Trigonictis cookii (Gazin 1934)
    = Trigonictis macrodon Cope 1868
Ray et al. 1981
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Canis davisi Merriam 1911
(1 measurement)
    = Eucyon davisi Merriam 1911
Alroy 2002
Borophagus sp. Cope 1892
    = Borophagus hilli Johnston 1939
Wang et al. 1999
Mammalia - Talpidae
Scapanus sp. Pomel 1848
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Hypolagus ringoldensis n. sp. Gustafson 1978
Nekrolagus cf. progressus (Hibbard 1939)
confirmed by White 1991a
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Ammospermophilus hanfordi Gustafson 1978
? Spermophilus russelli Gustafson 1978
Paenemarmota cf. sawrockensis (Hibbard 1964)
Gustafson 1985
"or Marmota"
Mammalia - Rodentia - Geomyidae
Thomomys cf. gidleyi Wilson 1933
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Dipoides rexroadensis Hibbard and Riggs 1949
Castor californicus Kellogg 1911
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Peromyscus nosher Gustafson 1978
(1 measurement)
Mimomys (Ophiomys) mcknighti Gustafson 1978
    = Ophiomys mcknighti Gustafson 1978
Alroy 2002
Neotoma cf. quadriplicata (Hibbard 1941)
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Washington County:Franklin
Coordinates: 46.3° North, 119.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:46.3° North, 118.1° 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:Ringold Member:upper
Local section:Ringo Local bed:2
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Taxonomic list comments:originally described by Merriam and Buwalda 1917
composite of numerous localities from a 70 m interval
magnetically reversed
Metadata
Also known as:UCMP 2757; UCMP 3031
Database number:20063
Authorizer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot Enterer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-02-18 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:44
Access level:the public Released:1993-02-18 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
1751. E. P. Gustafson. 1978. The Vertebrate Faunas of the Pliocene Ringold Formation, South-Central Washington. Bulletin of the Museum of Natural History, University of Oregon 23:1-62 [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]
1755 E. P. Gustafson. 1985. Soricids (Mammalia, Insectivora) from the Blufftop Local Fauna, Blancan Ringold Formation of Central Washington, and the Correlation of Ringold Formation Faunas. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 5(1) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
51624 E. P. Gustafson. 2012. New records of rhinoceroses from the Ringold Formation of central Washington and the Hemphillian-Blancan boundary. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32(3):727-731 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]
2841 C. E. Ray, E. Anderson, and S. D. Webb. 1981. The Blancan carnivore Trigonictis (Mammalia: Mustelidae) in the Eastern United States. Brimleyana 5:1-36 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
4150 R. H. Tedford and J. Martin. 2001. Plionarctos, a tremarctine bear (Ursidae: Carnivora) from western North America. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 21(2):311-321 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
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]