Country Club: Blancan, Arizona
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Megalonychidae
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Megalonyx sp.
Harlan 1825
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Mustelidae
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Taxidea sp.
Waterhouse 1839
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Hemiauchenia sp.
Gervais and Ameghino 1880
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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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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Notolagus lepusculus
(Hibbard 1939)
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| confirmed by White 1991a (1 measurement) | ||||||||||
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Aztlanolagus agilis
Russell and Harris 1986
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White 1991 | |||||||||
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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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Neotoma quadriplicata
(Hibbard 1941)
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Peromyscus sp.
Gloger 1841
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Sigmodon medius
Gidley 1922
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| synonym of Sigmodon minor | ||||||||||
| confirmed by Mezzabotta 1997 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Arizona | County: | Greenlee |
| Coordinates: | 32.9° North, 109.1° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 33.0° North, 108.5° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| *Period: | Late/Upper Tertiary | *Epoch: | Pliocene | *Local age/stage: | Blancan |
| Key time interval: | Blancan | ||
| Age range of interval: | 4.70000 - 1.40000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Gila Conglomerate | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | member | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: from 10 localities spanning about 10 m of section | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | siltstone |
| Secondary lithology: | conglomerate |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | fluvial indet. |
| Geology comments: most localities are in siltstone, but some are in "Pediment- and- terrace gravel" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated minor elements: | many |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | bulk,surface (float),sieve,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | UALP 8042 | ||
| Database number: | 19653 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-09-25 20:55:10 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 6199. | 5% 23340 | Y. Tomida. 1987. Small mammal fossils and correlation of continental deposits, Safford and Duncan basins, Arizona. National Science Museum 1-141 [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] | |
| 3633 | J. A. White. 1991. North American Leporinae (Mammalia: Lagomorpha) from late Miocene (Clarendonian) to latest Pliocene (Blancan). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 11(1):67-89 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |