Clarkdale: Blancan, Arizona
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Osteichthyes
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? Osteichthyes indet.
Huxley 1880
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| acrodont tooth | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Gomphotheriidae
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Stegomastodon sp.
Pohlig 1912
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Mammalia
- Chiroptera
- Vespertilionidae
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Myotis sp.
Kaup 1829
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| a bat | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Nannippus peninsulatus
(Cope 1885)
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| NISP unclear, one good tooth and two lots of fragments | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Antilocapridae
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Antilocapridae indet.
Gray 1866
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Camelidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Felidae
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Felidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Hypolagus sp.
Dice 1917
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= Archaeolaginae indet.
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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cf. Aluralagus sp.
Downey 1968
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Sciuridae
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? Marmota sp.
Frisch 1775
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Spermophilus sp.
Cuvier 1825
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Heteromyidae
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Perognathus sp.
Maximillian 1839
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| seems OK, comparisons are to species like P. dunklei, P. pearlettensis, P. henryredfieldi, P. apache, and especially P. flavus | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Geomyidae
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Geomys sp.
Rafinesque 1817
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Calomys elachys
Lindsay and Jacobs 1985
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= Bensonomys cf. elachys
Lindsay and Jacobs 1985
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
| recombined as Calomys (Bensonomys) elachys | ||||||||||
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Calomys arizonae
Gidley 1922
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= Bensonomys arizonae
Gidley 1922
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
| recombined as Calomys (Bensonomys) arizonae | ||||||||||
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Peromyscus cf. hagermanensis
Hibbard 1962
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Sigmodontinae indet.
Wagner 1843
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Pliopotamys meadensis
Hibbard 1937
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= Ondatra meadensis
Hibbard 1937
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Neotoma sp.
Say and Ord 1825
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Repomys cf. panacaensis
May 1981
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Reithrodontomys sp.
Giglioli 1874
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Sigmodon medius
Gidley 1922
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| synonym of Sigmodon minor | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Colubridae
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Thamnophis sp.
Fitzinger 1843
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Reptilia
- Iguanidae
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cf. Crotaphytus sp.
Holbrook 1843
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Emydidae
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cf. Emydidae indet.
Rafinesque 1815
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Testudinidae
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Geochelone (Hesperotestudo) sp.
(Williams 1950)
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| spelled with current rank as Hesperotestudo | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Phasianidae
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Meleagris cf. progenes
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Urodela
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Urodela indet.
(Duméril 1805)
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Actinopteri
- Cypriniformes
- Cyprinidae
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Cyprinidae indet.
Rafinesque 1815
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Arizona | County: | Yavapai |
| Coordinates: | 34.5° North, 112.5° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 34.6° North, 111.9° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| *Period: | Tertiary | *Epoch: | Pliocene |
| Key time interval: | Blancan | ||
| Age range of interval: | 4.70000 - 1.40000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Verde |
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection size: | 58 specimens |
| Taxonomic list comments:Nations et al. 1981 show that this is about 14 mi W of House Mountain and of uncertain stratigraphic position relative to that section decent paleomag lower in section, but fauna is from interval that is "poorly magnetized" and correlation is completely ambiguous, contra Lindsay et al. 1984 Stegomastodon mirificus specimen of Agenbroad et al. 1998 is from "Clarkdale" in the upper Verde Fm., Yavapai Co. NISP about 58 | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | MNA 181; NAU 75; Phoenix Cement Company Plant; UALP 36 | ||
| Database number: | 19618 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-06-03 03:27:44 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 1292. | N. J. Czaplewski. 1987. Middle Blancan vertebrate assemblage from the Verde Formation, Arizona. Contributions to Geology, University of Wyoming 25(2):133-155 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
| 6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] |