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 | |
Emydidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 turtle | |
Mammalia | |
Canidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817 canid | |
Leptarctus sp. Leidy 1856 mustelid carnivore | |
Lamini indet. Webb 1965 camel | |
Prosthennops sp. Matthew and Gidley 1904 peccary | |
"Cosoryx cf. cerroensis" = Cosoryx (Subcosoryx) cerroensis
"Cosoryx cf. cerroensis" = Cosoryx (Subcosoryx) cerroensis Frick 1937 pronghorn | |
Cranioceras cf. unicornis Matthew 1918 ruminant | |
Teleoceras cf. major Hatcher 1894 rhinoceros | |
Hipparion condoni Merriam 1915 hipparionine horse |