Mark's Sink (Pleistocene of the United States)
Also known as DMNH Locality No. 1349
Where: Park County, Colorado (39.3° N, 105.7° W: paleocoordinates 39.3° N, 105.5° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Irvingtonian (1.8 - 0.3 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Reposited in the DMNH
Primary reference: O. Fejfar and C. A. Repenning. 1998. The ancestors of the lemmings (Lemmini, Arvicolinae, Cricetidae, Rodentia) in the early Pliocene of Wölfersheim near Frankfurt am Main; Germany. Senckenbergiana Lethaea 77(1/2):161-193 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/L. van den Hoek Ostende]more details
PaleoDB collection 20410: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002
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Taxonomic list
• a new locality within Porcupine Cave (see)
said to be "no older than 1.4 Ma" based on biochronology
includes microtine rodents and miscellaneous reports only
said to be "no older than 1.4 Ma" based on biochronology
includes microtine rodents and miscellaneous reports only
Show authors, comments, and common names
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"Spermophilus cf. elegans" = Urocitellus elegans1
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Lemmiscus curtatus, Microtus cf. californicus, Ondatra sp., Phenacomys (Phenacomys) intermedius, Mimomys (Cromeromys) virginianus, Allophaiomys cf. pliocaenicus, Mictomys vetus
Lemmiscus curtatus Cope 1868 sagebrush vole
Microtus cf. californicus Peale 1848 California vole
Ondatra sp. Link 1795 muskrat
Phenacomys (Phenacomys) intermedius Merriam 1889 western heather vole
Mimomys (Cromeromys) virginianus Repenning and Grady 1988 vole
Allophaiomys cf. pliocaenicus Kormos 1932 vole
Mictomys vetus Wilson 1933 bog lemming | |
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Aztlanolagus sp.2 Russell and Harris 1986 rabbit "oldest sections of Porcupine Cave" in association with Hypolagus
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