Where: Twin Falls County, Idaho (42.8° N, 114.9° W: paleocoordinates 43.0° N, 114.1° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Glenns Ferry Formation, Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)
• Below Bed G, dated to 3.79 Ma
Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; lithology not reported
•is interpreted as low-relief floodplain with little lateral migration
•of lithofacies and with subsidence at approximately the same
•rate as deposition (Powers and Malde, 1961; Bjork, 1970; Malde,
•1972; Lee et al., 1995).
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: K. A. Prassack. 2016. Lontra weiri, sp. nov., a Pliocene River Otter (Mammalia, Carnivora, Mustelidae, Lutrinae) from the Hagerman Fossil Beds (Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument), Idaho, U.S.A. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 36(4):e1149075 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 189134: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 05.10.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Mammalia | |
"Pliopotamys minor" = Ondatra minor, Cosomys primus
"Pliopotamys minor" = Ondatra minor Kretzoi 1955 muskrat
Cosomys primus Wilson 1932 vole | |
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Castor californicus Kellogg 1911 beaver | |
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Lontra weiri Prassack 2016 otter | |
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Platygonus pearcei Gazin 1938 peccary | |
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Hemiauchenia sp. Gervais and Ameghino 1880 camel | |