Castle Butte ( of the United States)

Also known as UO 2393

Where: Owyhee County, Idaho (43.0° N, 118.0° W: paleocoordinates 43.1° N, 117.4° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Blancan (4.9 - 1.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Collection methods: bulk, sieve

Primary reference: J. A. Shotwell. 1970. Pliocene mammals of southeast Oregon and adjacent Idaho. Bulletin of the Museum of Natural History, University of Oregon 17:1-103 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 19910: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993, edited by Terri Cleary

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• type of Erethizon bathygnathum of Wilson 1935 is from Castle Butte but not from UO 2393
Reptilia
 Squamata - Colubridae
Thamnophis sp.2 Fitzinger 1843 garter snake
USNM 13776, one vertebra (lower Pliocene)
Mammalia
 Carnivora - Mustelidae
Trigonictis sp. Hibbard 1941 mustelid carnivore
 Theriamorpha - Talpidae
Scapanus aff. townsendii Bachman 1839 mole
 Theriamorpha - Soricidae
Soricidae indet. Fischer 1814 shrew
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Mictomys vetus1 Wilson 1933 bog lemming
Ophiomys parvus Wilson 1933 vole
Ondatra idahoensis1 Wilson 1933 muskrat
 Rodentia - Heteromyidae
 Rodentia - Castoridae
Procastoroides idahoensis Shotwell 1970 beaver
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Hypolagus furlongi Gazin 1934 rabbit