Confusion (Miocene to of the United States)

Also known as UCMP V-4825, Mitchell Road

Where: Wheeler County, Oregon (44.9° N, 120.2° W: paleocoordinates 44.7° N, 114.5° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Mascall Formation, Hemingfordian to Hemingfordian (20.4 - 12.5 Ma)

• Tedford & Wang (2008) consider this within the Rattlesnake Formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: T. Downs. 1956. The Mascall fauna from the Miocene of Oregon. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 31(5):199-354 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 18864: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.03.1995, edited by Jonathan Marcot

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Taxonomic list

• Teleoceras and "Pliohippus" at this site are probably washed down from overlying Rattlesnake strata: Fremd et al. 1994
Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Merychippus cf. relictus Cope 1889 horse
 Artiodactyla - Palaeomerycidae
Dromomeryx cf. borealis1 Cope 1877 ruminant
 Carnivora - Canidae
Metalopex merriami2 Tedford and Wang 2008 canine