Corral Buttes (CIT 417) (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Harney County, Oregon (42.7° N, 118.7° W: paleocoordinates 43.4° N, 115.8° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. E. Wallace. 1946. A Miocene Mammalian Fauna from Beatty Buttes, Oregon. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 551(6):113-134 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 18865: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993

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Taxonomic list

• NISP not clear but about 10 - 20
Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Aphelops sp. Owen 1845 rhinoceros
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hypohippus osborni Gidley 1907 anchitheriine horse
Archaeohippus cf. ultimus Cope 1886 anchitheriine horse
Acritohippus isonesus1 Cope 1889 horse
 Artiodactyla - Antilocapridae
Merycodontinae indet.1 Matthew 1904 pronghorn
 Rodentia - Mylagaulidae
Hesperogaulus gazini2 Korth 1999 rodent