Buckshot Arroyo (OMNH VP locality no. V671) (Neogene of the United States)

Also known as Buis Ranch

Where: Beaver County, Oklahoma (36.9° N, 100.3° W: paleocoordinates 37.2° N, 98.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Rexroad Formation, Late/Upper Hemphillian (10.3 - 4.9 Ma)

• formational assignment for the Buis Ranch local fauna is called into question

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; poorly lithified sandstone

• "a poorly consolidated sand above a caliche layer"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by N. J. Czaplewski, K. L. Davis in 2000

• Oklahoma Museum of Natural History collection

Primary reference: W. G. Joyce, A. Petričević, T. R. Lyson and N. J. Czaplewski. 2012. A new box turtle from the Miocene/Pliocene boundary (latest Hemphillian) of Oklahoma and a refined chronology of box turtle diversification. Journal of Paleontology 86(1):177-190 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 125717: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.03.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Testudines - Testudinidae
Testudinidae indet.
Testudinidae indet. Batsch 1788 turtle
"tortoise peripheral"
 Testudines - Emydidae
Terrapene parornata n. sp.
Terrapene parornata n. sp. Joyce et al. 2012 box turtle
Mammalia
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
Marmotini indet.
Marmotini indet. squirrel
"ground squirrel dentary"
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equinae indet., Pseudhipparion simpsoni
Equinae indet. Steinmann and Döderlein 1890 horse
partial dentary of a "large" horse
Pseudhipparion simpsoni Webb and Hulbert 1986 hipparionine horse