Upper Black Butte: Late/Upper Miocene, Oregon
collected by Shotwell
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Ciconidae indet.
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Brodkorb 1961 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Osteoborus cf. cyonoides
(Martin 1928)
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| synonym of Borophagus secundus | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Pliohippus sp.
Marsh 1874
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| probably Dinohippus | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Antilocapridae
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Sphenophalos sp.
Merriam 1909
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Reptilia
- Accipitriformes
- Accipitridae
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Neophrontops dakotensis
Compton 1935
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Brodkorb 1961 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Suliformes
- Phalacrocoracidae
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Phalacrocorax leptopus n. sp.
Brodkorb 1961
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| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Oregon | County: | Malheur |
| Coordinates: | 43.8° North, 118.1° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 44.2° North, 116.4° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Miocene | Mammal zone: | Hemphillian |
| Age range of interval: | 11.63000 - 5.33300 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Drewsey | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: found in stratigraphic superposition over the Juntura Formation which produces Clarendonian vertebrate fossils |
Lithology and environment
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
Collection methods and comments
| Museum repositories: | OU |
| Collectors: | Shotwell |
Metadata
| Also known as: | OU 2360 | ||
| Database number: | 154947 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Bloch | Enterer: | R. Hulbert | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2014-03-22 17:46:30 | Last modified: | 2014-03-22 17:46:30 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2014-03-22 17:46:30 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 3114. | J. A. Shotwell. 1963. Mammalian fauna of the Drewsey Formation, Bartlett Mountain, Drinkwater and Otis Basin local faunas. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 53(1):70-77 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/R. Hulbert] |
Secondary references:
| 50493 | P. Brodkorb. 1961. Birds from the Pliocene of Juntera, Oregon. Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences 24(3):169-184 [J. Bloch/R. Hulbert] |