Grouse Creek (Rabbit Horizon): Clarendonian, Utah

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Eucastor cf. tortus (Leidy 1858)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Copemys aff. lindsayi Sutton and Korth 1995
    = Copemys aff. mariae Baskin and Korth 1996
Alroy 2002
recombined as Honeymys mariae
sensu Dalquest et al. 1996
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
Hesperolagomys galbreathi Clark et al. 1964
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Utah County:Box Elder
Coordinates: 41.5° North, 112.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:42.1° North, 110.4° 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 *Local age/stage:Clarendonian
Key time interval:Clarendonian
Age range of interval:12.50000 - 9.40000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Salt Lake
Stratigraphy comments: said to be Clarendonian
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Metadata
Also known as:IMNH 1123
Database number:18913
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2000-05-19 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:43
Access level:the public Released:2000-05-19 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

3393. A. R. Tedrow and S. F. Robison. 1999. A preliminary report of a new Clarendonian (Late Miocene) mammalian fauna from northwestern Utah. Utah Geological Survey Miscellaneous Publication 99-1:479-486 [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]