Also known as OU 2360
Where: Malheur County, Oregon (43.8° N, 118.1° W: paleocoordinates 44.2° N, 116.4° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Hemphillian mammal zone, Drewsey Formation, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
• found in stratigraphic superposition over the Juntura Formation which produces Clarendonian vertebrate fossils
Environment/lithology:
Preservation: original phosphate
Collected by Shotwell; reposited in the OU
Primary reference: 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]more details
PaleoDB collection 154947: authorized by Jonathan Bloch, entered by Richard Hulbert on 22.03.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Mammalia | |
"Osteoborus cf. cyonoides" = Borophagus secundus
"Osteoborus cf. cyonoides" = Borophagus secundus VanderHoof 1931 bone-crushing dog | |
Sphenophalos sp. Merriam 1909 pronghorn | |
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Aves | |
Phalacrocorax leptopus n. sp.
Phalacrocorax leptopus n. sp. Brodkorb 1961 cormorant | |
Neophrontops dakotensis Compton 1935 Old World vulture |