Ironside (Miocene of the United States)

Also known as UCMP 3037

Where: Malheur County, Oregon (43.6° N, 117.5° W: paleocoordinates 44.3° N, 114.6° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: J. C. Merriam. 1916. Mammalian Remains From a Late Tertiary Formation at Ironside, Oregon. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geology 10(9):129-135 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details

PaleoDB collection 18930: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.03.1995

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Taxonomic list

• this is substantially to the NW of Shotwell's northern Malheur Co. field areas
Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Proboscidea
Proboscidea indet. proboscidean
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hippotherium sp. Kaup 1832 hipparionine horse
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Rhinocerotidae indet. Gray 1821 rhinoceros