Also known as Shitike Cluster

Where: Jefferson County, Oregon (44.8° N, 121.3° W: paleocoordinates 44.5° N, 112.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: John Day Formation, Arikareean (29.5 - 18.5 Ma)

• "RV7717 occurs at the base of [measured section] Shitike-1."

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; massive, fine-grained, tuffaceous, intraclastic, silty sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by field parties from the California Institute of Technology in 1920's and early 1930's; reposited in the CIT, LACM

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: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 188966: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 22.09.2017, edited by Patricia Holroyd

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