Also known as UALP 6
Where: Navajo County, Arizona (35.8° N, 110.1° W: paleocoordinates 36.2° N, 108.5° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Bidahochi Formation, Late/Upper Hemphillian (10.3 - 4.9 Ma)
• "middle Hemphillian"
•Baskin 1978: from the "upper member of the Bidahochi Formation, approximately 20 m above the volcanic (limburgite) tuff middle member"; a different basalt in the middle member is dated at 6.69 +/- 0.16 Ma (K-Ar)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: mesofossils
Collected by Baskin in 1974
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
• material reposited in the UALP but owned by "the Navajo and Hope tribes" (Baskin 1978)
Primary reference: J. A. Baskin. 1979. Small Mammals of the Hemphillian Age White Cone Local Fauna, Northeastern Arizona. Journal of Paleontology 53(3):695-708 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 19610: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993, edited by Jonathan Marcot
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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? Domninoides sp. Green 1956 mole | |
Notiosorex sp. Baird 1877 gray shrew | |
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"Paramachairodus sp." = Paramachaerodus4
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Paronychomys alticuspis n. sp., Copemys sp., Cricetinae indet., "Bensonomys gidleyi" = Calomys (Bensonomys) gidleyi1, "Bensonomys yazhi" = Calomys (Bensonomys) yazhi1
Paronychomys alticuspis n. sp. Baskin 1979 rodent
Copemys sp. Wood 1936 rodent
Cricetinae indet. Fischer von Waldheim 1817 rodent | |
Sciurinae indet. Gray 1821 squirrel | |
Dipoides williamsi n. sp.
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Heterodon cf. nasicus7, Thamnophis sp.7, "Lampropeltis getula" = Lampropeltis getulus7, Pituophis melanoleucus7
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