Rome Beds: Irvingtonian, Oregon

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Canis edwardii Gazin 1942
Nowak 1979
Vulpes stenognathus Savage 1941
Tedford et al. 2009
"Burmeister locality, UCMP locality V73061, Rome beds"
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Panthera cf. onca (Linnaeus 1758)
Kurten and Anderson 1980
said to "probably" be onca
Mammalia - Mylodontidae
Paramylodon harlani (Owen 1840)
Irvingtonian of "Rome" in Malheur Co.
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Oregon County:Malheur
Coordinates: 43.6° North, 117.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.6° North, 117.3° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
*Local age/stage:Irvingtonian
Key time interval:Irvingtonian
Age range of interval:1.40000 - 0.21000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Stratigraphy comments: said to be Irvingtonian
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Taxonomic list comments:not clear how this relates to the Hemphillian Rome site
Metadata
Database number:20499
Authorizer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot Enterer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1995-03-26 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:44
Access level:the public Released:1995-03-26 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

2499. H. G. McDonald. 1995. Gravigrade xenarthrans from the early Pleistocene Leisey Shell Pit 1A, Hillsborough County, Florida. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 37(11) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]

Secondary references:

6221 B. Kurten and E. Anderson. 1980. Pleistocene mammals of North America 1-442 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
2673 R. M. Nowak. 1979. North American Quaternary Canis. Monograph of the Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas 6:1-154 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
52058 R. H. Tedford, X. Wang, and B. E. Taylor. 2009. Phylogenetic Systematics of the North American Fossil Caninae (Carnivora: Canidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 325:1-218 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot/G. Lloyd]