Where: Malheur County, Oregon (43.6° N, 117.5° W: paleocoordinates 44.0° N, 115.8° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Chalk Butte Formation, Hemphillian (10.3 - 4.9 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. A. Shotwell. 1970. Pliocene mammals of southeast Oregon and adjacent Idaho. Bulletin of the Museum of Natural History, University of Oregon 17:1-103 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 18943: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Dipoides sp. Jaeger 1835 beaver genus present in the main part of the locality, and D. stirtoni is present in a pocket of possibly reworked material
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Hypolagus vetus Kellogg 1910 rabbit | |
Eucyon davisi Merriam 1911 canine | |
Camelidae indet. Gray 1821 camel | |
Dinohippus spectans Cope 1880 horse | |
Scapanus proceridens Hutchison 1968 mole |