Rose Creek Member: Harrisonian, Oregon

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Carnivora - Amphicyonidae
Amphicyonidae indet. Haeckel 1886
Daphoeninae indet. Hunt 1998
Hunt and Stepleton 2004
"large daphoenine sp." - UNSM 7088-94
    = Daphoenodon robustum Peterson 1910
Hunt 2009
recombined as Daphoenodon (Borocyon) robustum
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Desmocyon thomsoni (Matthew 1907)
Hunt and Stepleton 2004
Mammalia - Merycoidodontidae
Merycochoerus sp. Leidy 1858
Mammalia - Camelidae
Camelidae indet. Gray 1821
Mammalia - Palaeomerycidae
Dromomerycidae indet. Frick 1937
spelled with current rank as Dromomerycinae
"near if not the same as Barbouromeryx"
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Chalicotheriidae
Moropus oregonensis (Leidy 1873)
Coombs et al. 2001
"upper unit at Rose Creek" that cuts into the Kimberly Member; also at Picture Gorge 36, which appears to be in the same unit
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equidae indet. Gray 1821
Hunt and Stepleton 2004
"anchithere"
cf. Kalobatippus sp. Osborn 1915
Hunt and Stepleton 2004
Parahippus pawniensis Gidley 1907
Hunt and Stepleton 2004
Archaeohippus sp. Gidley 1906
Hunt and Stepleton 2004
Mammalia - Rodentia - Aplodontidae
Sewelleladon cf. predontia Shotwell 1958
Hunt and Stepleton 2004
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Oregon County:Grant
Coordinates: 44.5° North, 119.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:44.3° North, 111.5° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 4-5
*Period:Tertiary *Epoch:Miocene
Key time interval:Harrisonian
Age range of interval:23.10000 - 18.50000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:John Day
Local section:JohnD Local bed:12
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Taxonomic list comments:technically a part of the Haystack Valley Mbr. of earlier authors, but collections are new and from higher levels
Metadata
Database number:19037
Authorizer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot Enterer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot
Modifier:B. Allen Research group:vertebrate
Created:1995-03-26 00:00:00 Last modified:2023-07-29 05:46:51
Access level:the public Released:1995-03-26 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
3217. E. Stepleton and R. Hunt, Jr. 1994. SVP Field Guide [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

4181 M. C. Coombs, R. M. Hunt, Jr., E. Stepleton, L. B. Albright, III, and T. J. Fremd. 2001. Stratigraphy, chronology, biogeography, and taxonomy of early Miocene small chalicotheres of North America. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 21(3):607-620 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
54871 R. M. Hunt, Jr. 2009. Long-Legged Pursuit Carnivorans (Amphicyonidae, Daphoeninae) From the Early Miocene of North America. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 318:1-95 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]
9853 R. M. Hunt, Jr. and E. Stepleton. 2004. Geology and paleontology of the upper John Day beds, John Day river valley, Oregon: lithostratigraphic and biochronologic revision in the Haystack Valley and Kimberly areas (Kimberly and Mt. Misery quadrangles). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 282:1-90 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]