Star Valley (IMNH 67001) (Neogene of the United States)

Where: Owyhee County, Idaho (42.0° N, 117.0° W: paleocoordinates 42.4° N, 115.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Hemphillian (10.3 - 4.9 Ma)

• "early Hemphillian" (Becker 1987)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Collected by J. A. White in 1968

Primary reference: J. J. Becker and H. G. McDonald. 1998. The Star Valley local fauna (early Hemphillian), southwestern Idaho. Idaho Museum of Natural History Occasional Paper 36:25-49 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 19085: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 13.10.1998, edited by Jonathan Marcot

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Taxonomic list

• generically determinate NISP 62
Mammalia
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
Spermophilus (Otospermophilus) sp. Cuvier 1825 ground squirrel
 Rodentia - Heteromyidae
 Rodentia - Mylagaulidae
Mylagaulidae indet. Cope 1881 rodent
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
? Copemys sp. Wood 1936 mouse
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Hypolagus sp. Dice 1917 rabbit
Hypolagus vetus Kellogg 1910 rabbit
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equini indet.1 Quinn 1955 horse
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Camelidae indet. Gray 1821 camel
large
Camelidae indet.1 Gray 1821 camel
? Alforjas sp. Harrison 1979 camel
based on dental material
 Artiodactyla -
Ruminantia indet. ruminant
"Dromomerycidae or Cervidae"
 Artiodactyla - Antilocapridae
Antilocapridae indet. Gray 1866 pronghorn
 Carnivora - Felidae
Felidae indet. Gray 1821 cat
 Carnivora - Mustelidae
Pliotaxidea cf. nevadensis Butterworth 1916 badger
 Carnivora - Canidae
Metalopex merriami3 Tedford and Wang 2008 canine
Metalopex merriami3 Tedford and Wang 2008 canine
explicitly contrasted with Leptocyon
Epicyon haydeni Leidy 1858 bone-crushing dog
confirmed by Wang et al. 1999
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Amebelodon cf. floridanus Leidy 1886 gomphothere
Aves
 Falconiformes - Falconidae
? Falco sp.2 Linnaeus 1758 falcon