Where: Graham County, Arizona (32.6° N, 109.5° W: paleocoordinates 32.7° N, 108.9° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Gila Conglomerate Formation, Blancan to Blancan (4.9 - 0.3 Ma)
• material is from "a number of localities" in a section than spans about 15 m and six beds
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial; siltstone and sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: bulk, surface (float), sieve,
Primary reference: Y. Tomida. 1987. Small mammal fossils and correlation of continental deposits, Safford and Duncan basins, Arizona. National Science Museum 1-141 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 19652: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
"Spermophilus cf. bensoni" = Citellus (Otospermophilus) bensoni
"Spermophilus cf. bensoni" = Citellus (Otospermophilus) bensoni Gidley 1922 squirrel | |
Nerterogeomys cf. persimilis Hay 1927 pocket gopher | |
Dipodomys hibbardi Zakrzewski 1981 kangaroo rat | |
Sigmodon sp. Say and Ord 1825 cotton rat | |
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Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse | |
? Camelops sp. Leidy 1854 camel
Hemiauchenia sp. Gervais and Ameghino 1880 camel | |
Antilocapridae indet. Gray 1866 pronghorn | |
Taxidea sp. Waterhouse 1839 badger | |
Arctodus sp. Leidy 1854 bear | |
Canidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817 canid | |
Glyptotherium texanum Osborn 1903 glyptodon |