House Mountain (MNA 318) ( of the United States)

Also known as Twenter; Twenter's Locality No. 26; TW 26

Where: Yavapai County, Arizona (34.8° N, 111.9° W: paleocoordinates 34.9° N, 111.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Verde Formation, Blancan (4.9 - 1.8 Ma)

• from a "2 m interval... concentrated in a horizon about 1 m below" a limestone ledge "and 1 m above the base of the exposure"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; calcareous mudstone

• "calcareous mudstones"

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, sieve,

• "screenwashing and quarrying"

Primary reference: N. J. Czaplewski. 1987. Sigmodont rodents (Mammalia; Muroidea; Sigmodontinae) from the Pliocene (early Blancan) Verde Formation, Arizona. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 7(2):183-199 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 19620: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 30.04.1994

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Taxonomic list

• about 35 m above MNA 319; next reversed interval above MNA 319, i.e., Chron 3n.1r, between 4.13 and 4.27 Ma according to Cande and Kent 1992

•twice as much matrix was screened at MNA 318 as at MNA 319 and 230 specimens were recovered, but exact number in each sample is unclear and additional, quarried specimens were recovered at MNA 318

•also reported by Nations et al. 1981

•"Peromyscus sp." is omitted by Czaplewski 1990

Amphibia
 Caudata - Urodela
Urodela indet. salamander
Aves
 Passeriformes -
Passeriformes indet. Linnaeus 1758 perching bird
Mammalia
 Chiroptera - Vespertilionidae
Lasiurus cf. blossevillii3 hairy-tailed bat
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Jacobsomys verdensis Czaplewski 1987 mouse
Reithrodontomys cf. wetmorei2 Hibbard 1952 harvest mouse
Onychomys bensoni2 Gidley 1922 grasshopper mouse
"Bensonomys arizonae" = Calomys (Bensonomys) arizonae1 Gidley 1922 mouse
Prosigmodon holocuspis Czaplewski 1987 mouse
"Sigmodon medius" = Sigmodon minor Gidley 1922 cotton rat
Neotoma vaughani n. sp.2 Czaplewski 1990 pack rat
 Rodentia - Geomyidae
Nerterogeomys minor2 Gidley 1922 pocket gopher
 Rodentia - Heteromyidae
Prodipodomys idahoensis2 Hibbard 1962 rodent
Perognathus strigipredus n. sp.2 Czaplewski 1990 pocket mouse
 Theriamorpha - Soricidae
Soricidae indet.1 Fischer 1814 shrew