Cucumber (GS-219) ( of the United States)
Where: Canyon County, Idaho (43.6° N, 116.8° W: paleocoordinates 43.8° N, 116.2° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Glenns Ferry Formation, Blancan (4.9 - 1.8 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Primary reference: C. A. Repenning, T. R. Weasma, and G. R. Scott. 1995. The Early Pleistocene (Latest Blancan-Earliest Irvingtonian) Froman Ferry Fauna and History of the Glenns Ferry Formation, Southwestern Idaho. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 2105:1-86 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details
PaleoDB collection 19784: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 21.09.1998
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Taxonomic list
• this and the remaining Cucumber localities are all to the south of the preceding and topographically higher, but slight tilting of the beds has exagerrated the apparent stratigraphic difference
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Ophiomys parvus Wilson 1933 vole | |