Granger Clay Pit (Miocene of the United States)

Also known as LACM 6431, ULGM locality V-19

Where: Yakima County, Washington (46.5° N, 120.4° W: paleocoordinates 46.4° N, 115.8° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ellensburg Formation, Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the LACM

Primary reference: L. J. Bryant. 1968. A New Genus of Mustelid From the Ellensburg Formation, Washington. Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 139:1-6 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 18903: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.03.1995, edited by Nicholas Famoso

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Taxonomic list

• "upper or Natches Member" of fm. above the Wenas Basalt; this would be somewhere between the two Ellensburg dates reported by Smith et al. 1989 if the locality is in the Selah Basin
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Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Gomphotheriidae indet.
Gomphotheriidae indet. Hay 1922 gomphothere
 Soricomorpha - Plesiosoricidae
Plesiosorex cf. latidens2
Plesiosorex cf. latidens2 Hall 1929 placental
ULGM V3485
 Carnivora - Mustelidae
Hoplictis grangerensis1
Hoplictis grangerensis1 Bryant 1968 ratel
 Artiodactyla - Antilocapridae
Antilocapridae indet.
Antilocapridae indet. Gray 1866 pronghorn
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Camelidae "medium-sized sp.", Camelidae "large sp.", Camelidae indet.1
Camelidae "medium-sized sp." Gray 1821 camel
medium-sized
Camelidae "large sp." Gray 1821 camel
large
Camelidae indet.1 Gray 1821 camel
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparionini indet.
Hipparionini indet. Quinn 1955 hipparionine horse
"Hipparion ?anthonyi"
1Alroy 2002; 2Martin 2014