Black Butte (UO 2337): Clarendonian, Oregon
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Anseriformes
- Anatidae
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Ocyplonessa shotwelli n. sp.
Brodkorb 1961
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Brodkorb 1961 | |||||||||
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Querquedula pullulans n. sp.
Brodkorb 1961
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Brodkorb 1961 | |||||||||
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Eremochen russelli
Brodkorb 1961
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Brodkorb 1961 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Mammutidae
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Mammut sp.
Blumenbach 1799
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| see Shotwell 1963a | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Tayassuidae
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Tayassuinae indet.
Palmer 1897
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| "Prosthennops" of Shotwell 1963a; | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Merycoidodontidae
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Ustatochoerus sp.
Schultz and Falkenbach 1941
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= Merychyus sp.
Leidy 1858
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Shotwell et al. 1963 | |||||||||
| listed in table, no description | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Caninae indet.
Gill 1872
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3 specimens | |||||||||
| "Vulpes" | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Talpidae
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Scapanus sp.
Pomel 1848
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= Scapanus cf. shultzi
Tedford 1961
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Hutchison 1968 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Soricidae
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? Hesperosorex sp.
Hibbard 1957
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Anouroneomys minimus
Hutchison and Bown 1980
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Brown 1980 | |||||||||
| this or UO 2337 is the type locality | ||||||||||
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= Crusafontina minima
Hutchison and Bown 1980
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Van Dam 2004 | |||||||||
| original and current combination Anouroneomys minimus | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Peromyscus dentalis
Hall 1930
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= Copemys dentalis
Hall 1930
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Shotwell 1967 | |||||||||
| original and current combination Peromyscus dentalis | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Heteromyidae
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Cupidinimus sp.
Wood 1935
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Castoridae
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Eucastor malheurensis
Shotwell and Russell 1963
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Shotwell et al. 1963 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Sciuridae
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Citellus (Otospermophilus) sp.
(Brandt 1844)
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= Spermophilus sp.
Cuvier 1825
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Hypolagus sp.
Dice 1917
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16 specimens | |||||||||
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= Archaeolaginae indet.
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Shotwell et al. 1963 | |||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Oregon | County: | Malheur |
| Coordinates: | 43.6° North, 117.5° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 44.2° North, 115.0° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5-6 | ||
| *Period: | Tertiary | ||
| Key time interval: | Clarendonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 12.50000 - 9.40000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | bulk,sieve |
| Collection size: | 76 specimens |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:KA 1240 dated at 12.1 (= 12.42) Ma (crushed basalt); said to be at top of lower mbr. by Tedford et al. 1987, and text of Evernden and James 1964 indicates that it is roughly equivalent to the "patagonite basalt" at that level; based on Fig. 5 of Bowen et al. 1963, this is about 500' below Quarry 11, whereas much younger Welded Tuff is only about 350' above, and most of the general fauna is from about 150' below the Welded Tuff; I conclude that the basalt date is useless because fauna is probably 9.9 - 10.6 Ma old NISP 76, excluding generically indeterminate records | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Quarry 11 | ||
| Database number: | 18820 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy, J. Bloch | Enterer: | J. Alroy, R. Hulbert |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2007-09-07 20:56:14 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 3119. | J. A. Shotwell and D. E. Russell. 1963. Mammalian fauna of the Upper Juntura formation, the Black Butte local fauna. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 53(1):42-69 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/R. Hulbert] |
Secondary references:
| 6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
| 50493 | P. Brodkorb. 1961. Birds from the Pliocene of Juntera, Oregon. Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences 24(3):169-184 [J. Bloch/R. Hulbert] | |
| 1114 | T. M. Brown. 1980. The fossil lnsectivora of Lemoyne Quarry (Ash Hollow Formation, Hemphillian), Keith County, Nebraska. Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences 8:99-122 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] | |
| 1989 | J. H. Hutchison. 1968. Fossil Talpidae (Insectivora, Mammalia) from the Tertiary of Oregon. Bulletin of the Museum of Natural History, University of Oregon 11:1-117 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] | |
| 3115 | J. A. Shotwell. 1967. Peromyscus of the Late Tertiary in Oregon. Bulletin of the Museum of Natural History, University of Oregon 5:1-35 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] | |
| 3113 | J. A. Shotwell, R. G. Bowne, W. L. Gray, D. C. Gregory, D. W. Taylor and D. E. Russel. 1963. The Juntura Basin: Studies in Earth History and Paleoecology. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 53(1):1-77 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Wagner] | |
| 11139 | J. A. Van Dam. 2004. Anourosoricini (Mammalia: Soricidae) from the Mediterranena region: a pre-Quaternary example of recurrent climate-controlled north-south range shifting. Journal of Paleontology 78(4):741-764 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |