Blufftop: Blancan, Washington

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cervidae
Cervidae indet. Gray 1821
Mammalia - Soricidae
Sorex powersi Hibbard and Bjork 1971
Paracryptotis rex Hibbard 1950
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Mimomys (Ophiomys) mcknighti Gustafson 1978
    = Ophiomys cf. mcknighti Gustafson 1978
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Leporidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Washington County:Franklin
Coordinates: 46.3° North, 119.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:46.3° North, 118.1° 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:Ringold Member:uppermost
Local section:Ringo Local bed:3
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Taxonomic list comments:two localities; UO and UW locality are the same as Ellner
Metadata
Also known as:UO 2778; UW C0149; Ellner; Orchard
Database number:20064
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:
1755. E. P. Gustafson. 1985. Soricids (Mammalia, Insectivora) from the Blufftop Local Fauna, Blancan Ringold Formation of Central Washington, and the Correlation of Ringold Formation Faunas. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 5(1) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]