North of Red Rock Pass ( of the United States)

Where: Bannock County, Idaho (42.5° N, 112.1° W: paleocoordinates 42.6° N, 111.5° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Salt Lake Formation, Blancan to Blancan (4.9 - 0.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: P. H. McClellan. 1976. New evidence for the age of the Cenozoic Salt Lake beds in northeastern Great Basin. Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists 60(12):2185 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]more details

PaleoDB collection 20430: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 19.05.2000

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Taxonomic list

• said to be early Pleistocene = late Blancan or Irvingtonian
Mammalia
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
Spermophilus sp. Cuvier 1825 ground squirrel
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Peromyscus sp. Gloger 1841 deer mouse
Ondatra sp. Link 1795 muskrat
 Rodentia - Heteromyidae
Perognathinae indet. Coues 1875 rodent
 Soricomorpha - Soricidae
Sorex sp. Linnaeus 1758 long-tailed shrew