Warm Springs (RV-7608) ( of the United States)

Where: Wasco County, Oregon (44.9° N, 121.3° W: paleocoordinates 44.6° N, 112.3° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: John Day Formation, late Late Arikareean (29.5 - 18.5 Ma)

• "in the basal few meters of the exposed section" (Woodburne and Robinson 1977)

•said to be "latest Arikareean"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; tuffaceous, brown sandstone and siltstone

• "tuffaceous sandstone and siltstone, generally light to dark tan" (Woodburne and Robinson 1977)

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (float),

• "Most of the fossils were discovered as float" (Woodburne and Robinson 1977)

Primary reference: L. Dingus. 1990. Systematics, stratigraphy, and chronology for mammalian fossils (Late Arikareean to Hemingfordian) from the uppermost John Day Formation, Warm Springs, Oregon. PaleoBios 12(47/48):1-24 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 18013: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 27.09.1993, edited by Patricia Holroyd and Jonathan Marcot

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• below the "lapilli-tuff"

•stratigraphically mixed lists from RV-7314 and 7711 are omitted; original list of Woodburne and Robinson 1977 lumped RV-7608 and RV-7609

•NISP 38

Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Parahippus aff. leonensis Sellards 1916 anchitheriine horse
Archaeohippus sp. Gidley 1906 anchitheriine horse
 Artiodactyla - Merycoidodontidae
Merychyus minimus2 Peterson 1907 oreodont
Merychyus calaminthus Jahns 1940 oreodont
 Artiodactyla - Tayassuidae
"Cynorca sociale" = Marshochoerus socialis
"Cynorca sociale" = Marshochoerus socialis Marsh 1875 peccary
 Artiodactyla - Hypertragulidae
cf. Hypertragulus sp. Cope 1874 ruminant
 Artiodactyla - Leptomerycidae
"Leptomerycinae indet." = Leptomerycidae
"Leptomerycinae indet." = Leptomerycidae Zittel 1893 ruminant
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Archaeolagus cf. macrocephalus Matthew 1907 rabbit
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Deperetomys dingusi1 Martin et al. 2023 mouse
 Rodentia - Entoptychidae
Entoptychus individens Rensberger 1971 rodent
 Rodentia - Castoridae
? Palaeocastor sp. Leidy 1869 beaver