Also known as UO 2255
Where: Morrow County, Oregon (45.8° N, 119.7° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 47.6° N, 115.9° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Hemphillian (10.3 - 4.9 Ma)
• "relatively thin stratigraphic unit"
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; unlithified, tuffaceous sandstone and tuff
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: surface (float),
• "collection on hands and knees" from a blowout
Primary reference: J. A. Shotwell. 1958. Inter-community relationships in Hemphillian (mid-Pliocene) mammals. Ecology 39(2):271-282 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/W. Clyde]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 18833: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 27.09.1993
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
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Mammut sp. Blumenbach 1799 mastodon | |
Machairodus sp. Kaup 1833 cat | |
Ursidae indet. Gray 1825 bear | |
Procyonidae indet. Gray 1825 procyonid carnivore | |
Borophaginae indet. Simpson 1945 bone-crushing dog
Canini indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817 canine | |
Aphelops sp. Owen 1845 rhinoceros
Teleoceras sp. Hatcher 1894 rhinoceros | |
Hipparionini indet. Quinn 1955 hipparionine horse | |
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Sphenophalos sp. Merriam 1909 pronghorn | |
Tayassuinae indet. Palmer 1897 peccary |