Gateway: Miocene, Oregon
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
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Arctoidea indet.
Flower 1869
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| "Mustelidae or Procyonidae"; said to be a procyonid by Fremd et al. 1994 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Parahippus sp.
(Leidy 1858)
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= Equidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Merychippus sp.
Leidy 1856
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= Equidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Merychippus isonesus
(Cope 1889)
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= Acritohippus isonesus
Cope 1889
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Hulbert and MacFadden 1991 | |||||||||
| "M. seversus" | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Merycoidodontidae
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Ticholeptus sp.
Cope 1878
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= Ticholeptus zygomaticus
Cope 1878
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Kelly and Lander 1988 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Camelidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Oregon | County: | Jefferson |
| Coordinates: | 44.7° North, 121.2° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 44.5° North, 116.5° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5-6 | ||
| *Period: | Tertiary | ||
| Key time interval: | Miocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 23.03000 - 5.33300 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Mascall |
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Museum repositories: | UCMP |
Metadata
| Also known as: | UCMP V-3427 | ||
| Database number: | 18898 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1993-09-27 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-06-03 03:27:43 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-09-27 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 1393. | T. Downs. 1956. The Mascall fauna from the Miocene of Oregon. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 31(5):199-354 [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] | |
| 6224 | R. C. Hulbert, Jr. and B. J. MacFadden. 1991. Morphological transformation and cladogenesis at the base of the adaptive radiation of Miocene hypsodont horses. American Museum Novitates 3000:1-61 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
| 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] |