Benson, 3.5 miles south (Pliocene of the United States)

Where: Cochise County, Arizona (31.9° N, 110.3° W: paleocoordinates 32.1° N, 109.7° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• "deposits equivalent to those that contain the Benson local fauna"

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the AMNH

Primary reference: R. J. Zakrzewski. 1974. Fossil Ondatrini from Western North America. Journal of Mammalogy 55(2):284-292 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 232693: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 21.12.2023

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Ondatrini indet. Gray 1825 vole