Cucumber (GS-232) ( 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 19798: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 21.09.1998

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Taxonomic list

• this and two other localities above 2800 ft are stratigraphically, and apparently geographically closest to the overlying Pickles Butte basalt, dated at 1.58 +/- 0.085 Ma (Ar-Ar)
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Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Proboscidea
Proboscidea indet.
Proboscidea indet. proboscidean
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
"Plesippus fromanius" = Equus fromanius
"Plesippus fromanius" = Equus fromanius Repenning et al. 1995 horse
 Placentalia -
Carnivora indet.
Carnivora indet. Bowdich 1821 carnivoran
small
 Carnivora - Ursidae
Ursidae indet.
Ursidae indet. Gray 1825 bear
compared to Agriotherium
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Mictomys vetus, "Mimomys parvus" = Ophiomys parvus, Phenacomys gryci, Ondatra idahoensis
Mictomys vetus Wilson 1933 bog lemming
"Mimomys parvus" = Ophiomys parvus Wilson 1933 vole
Phenacomys gryci Repenning 1987 vole
Ondatra idahoensis Wilson 1933 muskrat