PBDB Collection

Beatty Buttes: Barstovian, Oregon

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Mammalia - Carnivora - Amphicyonidae

	Amphicyon frendens Matthew 1924		1 specimen
	(1 measurement)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae

	? Canidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae

	Hypohippus osborni Gidley 1907		2 specimens
	(1 measurement)

	Parahippus avus (Marsh 1874)		1 specimen
	= Desmatippus cf. avus Marsh 1874	Alroy 2002

	Archaeohippus cf. ultimus (Cope 1886)		1 specimen

	Merychippus isonesus (Cope 1889)
	= Acritohippus isonesus Cope 1889	Alroy 2002
	seems to be the same as the Red Basin M. isonesus: JA pers. obs. 6.1.95; NISP "approximately" 15; probably includes additional "Merychippus sp.," which is indeterminate in any event: JA pers. obs. 6.1.95

	Merychippus cf. campestris Gidley 1907		3 specimens
	= Equini indet. Quinn 1955	Alroy 2002
	more primitive than senior synonym Pliohippus mirabilis and more advanced than Parapliohippus carrizoensis, possibly A. stylodontus; JA pers. obs. 6.1.95
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae

	Aphelops sp. Owen 1845		2 specimens
Mammalia - Merycoidodontidae

	Merycoidodontidae indet. Cook 1912		1 specimen
	= Ticholeptus zygomaticus Cope 1878	Kelly and Lander 1988
Mammalia - Camelidae

	? Camelidae indet. Gray 1821
Mammalia - Antilocapridae

	Merycodus sp. Leidy 1854
	= Merycodontinae indet. Matthew 1904	Alroy 2002
	two forms
Mammalia - Palaeomerycidae

	Dromomeryx borealis (Cope 1877)		2 specimens
	(3 measurements)
Mammalia - Talpidae

	Scalopoides cf. ripafodiator Hutchison 1968	Hutchison 1968
	M1041
Mammalia - Soricidae

	Trimylus mawbyi Repenning 1967		1 specimen
	= Pseudotrimylus mawbyi Repenning 1967	Repenning 1967
	"Insectivora indet." M1041
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae

	Oreolagus sp. Dice 1917		7 specimens
	(4 measurements)
	= Oreolagus wallacei n. sp. Dawson 1965	Dawson 1965
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae

	Leporidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817	Dawson 1965	1 specimen
Mammalia - Rodentia - Mylagaulidae

	Mylagaulus cf. laevis Matthew 1902
	= Hesperogaulus gazini Korth 1999	Korth 1999
	NISP "approximately 25"
Mammalia - Rodentia - Aplodontidae

	Liodontia cf. alexandrae (Furlong 1910)		6 specimens
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae

	Sciurus sp. Linnaeus 1758		4 specimens
	= Protospermophilus malheurensis Gazin 1932	Black 1963
	DUPLICATE REF 1081 or 1082
Mammalia - Rodentia - Heteromyidae

	Diprionomys sp. Kellogg 1910
	= Heteromyidae indet. Gray 1868	Alroy 2002
see common names

Geography

Country:	United States	State/province:	Oregon	County:	Harney
Coordinates:	42.7° North, 118.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	43.5° North, 115.6° West
Basis of coordinate:	based on political unit
Geographic resolution:	small collection

Time

Period:	Neogene	Epoch:	Miocene
10 m.y. bin:	Cenozoic 5
*Period:	Tertiary
Key time interval:	Barstovian
Age range of interval:	16.30000 - 12.50000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields

Stratigraphy

Lithology and environment

Environment:

terrestrial indet.

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:

body

Collection methods and comments

Collection size:	70 specimens
Museum repositories:	USGS
Taxonomic list comments:generically determinate NISP about 70

Metadata

Also known as:	USGS M1041
Database number:	18809
Authorizer:	J. Alroy	Enterer:	J. Alroy
Modifier:	J. Alroy	Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	1993-09-27 00:00:00	Last modified:	2009-12-20 12:59:35
Access level:	the public	Released:	1993-09-27 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:	CC BY

Reference information

Primary reference:

3536.

R. E. Wallace. 1946. A Miocene Mammalian Fauna from Beatty Buttes, Oregon. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 551(6):113-134 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]

Secondary references:

6294		J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
1081		C. C. Black. 1963. Miocene rodents from the Thomas Farm local fauna, Florida. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 128(11) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
1338		M. R. Dawson. 1965. Oreolagus and other Lagomorpha (Mammalia) from the Miocene of Colorado, Wyoming, and Oregon. University of Colorado Studies: Series in Earth Sciences 1:1-36 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
1989		J. H. Hutchison. 1968. Fossil Talpidae (Insectivora, Mammalia) from the Tertiary of Oregon. Bulletin of the Museum of Natural History, University of Oregon 11:1-117 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
2070		T. S. Kelly and E. B. Lander. 1988. Biostratigraphy and Correlation of Hemingfordian and Barstovian Land Mammal Assemblages, Caliente Formation, Cuyama Valley Area, California. In W. J. M. Bazeley (ed.), Tertiary Tectonics and Sedimentation in the Cuyama Basin, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and Ventura Counties, California 1-19 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]
2137		W. W. Korth. 1999. Hesperogaulus, a new genus of mylagaulid rodent (Mammalia) from the Miocene (Barstovian to Hemphillian) of the Great Basin. Journal of Paleontology 73(5):945-951 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]
2869		C. A. Repenning. 1967. Subfamilies and genera of the Soricidae. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 565:1-74 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]