Where: Wasco County, Oregon (44.9° N, 121.3° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 49.4° N, 107.2° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: John Day Formation, late Late Arikareean (29.5 - 18.5 Ma)
• "in the basal few meters of the exposed section" (Woodburne and Robinson 1977)
•said to be "latest Arikareean"
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; tuffaceous, brown sandstone and siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: surface (float),
• "Most of the fossils were discovered as float" (Woodburne and Robinson 1977)
Primary reference: L. Dingus. 1990. Systematics, stratigraphy, and chronology for mammalian fossils (Late Arikareean to Hemingfordian) from the uppermost John Day Formation, Warm Springs, Oregon. PaleoBios 12(47/48):1-24 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 18013: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 27.09.1993, edited by Patricia Holroyd and Jonathan Marcot
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Taxonomic list
•stratigraphically mixed lists from RV-7314 and 7711 are omitted; original list of Woodburne and Robinson 1977 lumped RV-7608 and RV-7609
•NISP 38
Mammalia | |
Archaeolagus cf. macrocephalus Matthew 1907 rabbit | |
Entoptychus individens Rensberger 1971 rodent | |
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? Palaeocastor sp. Leidy 1869 beaver | |
Archaeohippus sp. Gidley 1906 anchitheriine horse
Parahippus aff. leonensis Sellards 1916 anchitheriine horse | |
Merychyus calaminthus Jahns 1940 oreodont | |
"Leptomerycinae indet." = Leptomerycidae
"Leptomerycinae indet." = Leptomerycidae Zittel 1893 ruminant | |
cf. Hypertragulus sp. Cope 1874 ruminant | |
"Cynorca sociale" = Marshochoerus socialis
"Cynorca sociale" = Marshochoerus socialis Marsh 1875 peccary |