Little Dell Dam Locality 1: Irvingtonian, Utah

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Zapodidae
Zapus sp. Coues 1876
Ruez and Bell 2004
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Neotoma sp. Say and Ord 1825
1 specimen
Microtus paroperarius Hibbard 1944
1 specimen
Lemmiscus curtatus (Cope 1868)
1 specimen
Peromyscus sp. Gloger 1841
1 specimen
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758
4+ specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Utah County:Salt Lake
Coordinates: 40.8° North, 111.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.9° North, 111.5° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
*Local age/stage:Irvingtonian
Key time interval:Irvingtonian
Age range of interval:1.40000 - 0.21000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: said to be Irvingtonian
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection size:8 specimens
Taxonomic list comments:generically identifiable NISP 8+
Metadata
Database number:20405
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2000-05-19 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:44
Access level:the public Released:2000-05-19 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

1630. D. D. Gillette, C. J. Bell, and M. C. Hayden. 1999. Utah Geological Survey Miscellaneous Publication 99-1:495-500 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

13454 D. R. Ruez, Jr. and C. J. Bell. 2004. First Pleistocene jumping mouse (Zapus, Zapodinae, Rodentia) from Utah. Western North American Naturalist 64(4):439-444 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]