Rome (Miocene of the United States)

Also known as CIT 62; USGS M1078

Where: Malheur County, Oregon (43.6° N, 117.5° W: paleocoordinates 44.2° N, 115.0° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Late/Upper Clarendonian (12.5 - 9.4 Ma)

• JA: traditionally early Hemphillian; late Clarendonian based on AEO results

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Reposited in the USGS

Primary reference: R. W. Wilson. 1937. New middle Pliocene rodent and lagomorph faunas from Oregon and California. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 487(1):2-19 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/C. Bell]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 19036: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 27.09.1993, edited by Evangelos Vlachos and Jonathan Marcot

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Taxonomic list

• also additional castorid, "? Castor sp."; provenance is suspect according to Wilson 1937b
Mammalia
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Hypolagus sp. Dice 1917 rabbit
Hypolagus vetus Kellogg 1910 rabbit
confirmed by White 1988
 Rodentia - Zapodidae
Pliozapus solus7 Wilson 1936 jumping mouse
new specimen
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Goniodontomys disjunctus n. sp. Wilson 1937 mouse
Basirepomys romensis n. sp.6 Korth 2011 mouse
spelt "pliocaenicus"
 Rodentia - Mylagaulidae
Hesperogaulus wilsoni5 Korth 1999 rodent
 Rodentia - Castoridae
Dipoides stirtoni n. sp. Wilson 1934 beaver
see Wilson 1934b
 Carnivora - Canidae
Borophagus pugnator9 Cook 1922 bone-crushing dog
"Aelurodon-Osteoborus group"
Epicyon haydeni9 Leidy 1858 bone-crushing dog
 Carnivora - Mustelidae
Lutrini indet.1 Gray 1865 otter
Plionictis ogygia Matthew 1901 mustelid carnivore
Lutravus cf. halli Furlong 1932 mustelid carnivore
 Carnivora - Felidae
Felidae "indet. large" Gray 1821 cat
large
Felidae "indet. small" Gray 1821 cat
small
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
"Pliohippus spectans" = Dinohippus spectans
"Pliohippus spectans" = Dinohippus spectans Cope 1880 horse
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Teleoceras sp. Hatcher 1894 rhinoceros
"T. fossiger?"
 Artiodactyla -
 Artiodactyla - Antilocapridae
Plioceros sp.4 Frick 1937 pronghorn
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Camelidae "indet. large" Gray 1821 camel
large
Camelidae "indet. small" Gray 1821 camel
small
 Artiodactyla - Tayassuidae
Prosthennops ? serus3 Cope 1877 peccary
 Theriamorpha - Talpidae
? Scapanus sp. Pomel 1848 mole
repeated by Hutchison 1968
 Theriamorpha - Soricidae
Paracryptotis rex8 Hibbard 1950 red-toothed shrew
M1078
Limnoecus cf. tricuspis8 Stirton 1930 shrew
M1078
 Proboscidea - Proboscidea
Proboscidea indet.1 proboscidean
Reptilia
 Testudines - Emydidae
"Clemmys owyheensis n. sp." = Emys marmorata2
"Clemmys owyheensis n. sp." = Emys marmorata2 Baird and Girard 1852 western pond turtle
LACM CIT.5123 (holotype), an entoplastron (Brattstrom and Sturn 1959, pl. 21c); LACM CIT.5127 (paratype), an entoplastron (not figured); LACM CIT. 5124–5126 (paratypes), three epiplastra (not figured)