Babcock/Foisy Locality (Miocene to of the United States)

Also known as SDSM V2000- l 5

Where: Yakima County, Washington (46.5° N, 120.6° W: paleocoordinates 46.4° N, 117.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Rattlesnake Ridge Member (Ellensburg Formation), Clarendonian to Clarendonian (12.5 - 9.4 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R. Foisy and J. E. Martin

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: J. E. Martin and D. C. Pagnac. 2009. A Vertebrate Assemblage From the Miocene Rattlesnake Ridge Member of the Ellensburg Formation, Central Washington. In L. B. Albright (ed.), Papers on Geology, Vertebrate Paleontology, and Biostratigraphy in Honor of Michael O. Woodburne (Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin 65) 197-216 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 175228: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 07.12.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Emydidae
Emydidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 turtle
Mammalia
 Carnivora - Canidae
Canidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817 canid
Cynarctus crucidens Barbour and Cook 1914 bone-crushing dog
"Cynarctus near crucidens"
 Carnivora - Mustelidae
Leptarctus sp. Leidy 1856 mustelid carnivore
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Lamini indet. Webb 1965 camel
 Artiodactyla - Tayassuidae
Prosthennops sp. Matthew and Gidley 1904 peccary
 Artiodactyla - Antilocapridae
"Cosoryx cf. cerroensis" = Cosoryx (Subcosoryx) cerroensis
"Cosoryx cf. cerroensis" = Cosoryx (Subcosoryx) cerroensis Frick 1937 pronghorn
 Artiodactyla - Palaeomerycidae
Cranioceras cf. unicornis Matthew 1918 ruminant
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Teleoceras cf. major Hatcher 1894 rhinoceros
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparion condoni Merriam 1915 hipparionine horse