Where: Twin Falls County, Idaho (42.8° N, 114.9° W: paleocoordinates 43.0° N, 114.1° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Glenns Ferry Formation, Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)
• Below Bed G, dated to 3.79 Ma
Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; lithology not reported
•is interpreted as low-relief floodplain with little lateral migration
•of lithofacies and with subsidence at approximately the same
•rate as deposition (Powers and Malde, 1961; Bjork, 1970; Malde,
•1972; Lee et al., 1995).
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: K. A. Prassack. 2016. Lontra weiri, sp. nov., a Pliocene River Otter (Mammalia, Carnivora, Mustelidae, Lutrinae) from the Hagerman Fossil Beds (Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument), Idaho, U.S.A. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 36(4):e1149075 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 181255: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 30.08.2016, edited by Patricia Holroyd
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Taxonomic list
Polypodiopsida | |
Equisetum sp. Linnaeus 1753 horsetail | |
Mammalia | |
Castor californicus Kellogg 1911 beaver | |
Cosomys primus Wilson 1932 vole | |
Trigonictis cooki mustelid carnivore
Satherium piscinarium Leidy 1873 otter | |
| |
"Canis ferox" = Eucyon ferox
"Canis ferox" = Eucyon ferox Miller and Carranza-Castaneda 1998 canine | |
Aves | |
Podicipedidae indet. Bonaparte 1831 grebe | |
Rallidae indet. Vigors 1825 rail | |
Cygnus (Olor) hibbardi Brodkorb 1958 swan
Bucephala sp. Baird 1858 seaduck |