Wolf Ranch: Blancan, Arizona

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Erethizontidae
Coendou stirtoni White 1968
    = Erethizon bathygnathum Wilson 1935
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Spermophilus bensoni (Gidley 1922)
recombined as Citellus (Otospermophilus) bensoni
Mammalia - Rodentia - Geomyidae
Nerterogeomys persimilis (Hay 1927)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Heteromyidae
Dipodomys hibbardi Zakrzewski 1981
Albright 1999
Perognathus gidleyi Hibbard 1941
Perognathus pearlettensis Hibbard 1941
Prodipodomys idahoensis Hibbard 1962
said to be indeterminate by Czaplewski 1990, but determinate by Albright 1999c
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Sigmodon minor Gidley 1922
sample is intermediate between S. minor and S. medius, but i.d. is upheld by Mezzabotta 1997
Sigmodon curtisi Gidley 1922
Neotoma sp. Say and Ord 1825
Peromyscus sp. Gloger 1841
Baiomys brachygnathus (Gidley 1922)
original and current combination Peromyscus brachygnathus
Baiomys minimus (Gidley 1922)
original and current combination Peromyscus minimus
Calomys arizonae Gidley 1922
    = Bensonomys arizonae Gidley 1922
Alroy 2002
recombined as Calomys (Bensonomys) arizonae
Onychomys bensoni Gidley 1922
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Notolagus cf. lepusculus (Hibbard 1939)
Sylvilagus hibbardi White 1984
White 1991
one specimen of N. progressus and one new specimen
Nekrolagus progressus (Hibbard 1939)
(11-1)
Mammalia - Chiroptera - Vespertilionidae
Simonycteris stocki Stirton 1931
    = Antrozous pallidus Le Conte 1856
Czaplewski 1993
a bat
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Nannippus peninsulatus (Cope 1885)
Equus simplicidens Cope 1892
recombined as Plesippus simplicidens
Mammalia - Camelidae
cf. Camelops sp. Leidy 1854
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
? Stegomastodon sp. Pohlig 1912
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Arizona County:Cochise
Coordinates: 32.0° North, 110.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.1° North, 109.6° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
*Period:Tertiary *Epoch:Pliocene
Key time interval:Blancan
Age range of interval:4.90000 - 1.80000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:St. David
Local section:SPedr Local bed:7
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection size:378 specimens
Taxonomic list comments:within chron C2An.1n
"Nannippus datum" of Johnson et al. 1975
NISP 378
Metadata
Also known as:UALP Loc. 64
Database number:19650
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-02-18 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:44
Access level:the public Released:1993-02-18 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

1797. J. A. Harrison. 1978. Mammals of the Wolf Ranch Local Fauna, Pliocene of the San Pedro Valley, Arizona. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas 73:1-18 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]

Secondary references:

939 L. B. Albright. 1999. Biostratigraphy and Vertebrate Paleontology of the San Timoteo Badlands, Southern California. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 144:1-121 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
1295 N. J. Czaplewski. 1993. Late Tertiary bats (Mammalia, Chiroptera) from the southwestern United States. Southwestern Naturalist 38(2):111-118 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
3633 J. A. White. 1991. North American Leporinae (Mammalia: Lagomorpha) from late Miocene (Clarendonian) to latest Pliocene (Blancan). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 11(1):67-89 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]