Deer Creek: Chattian, Oregon
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Aetiocetidae
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Aetiocetus cotylalveus n. gen., n. sp.
Emlong 1966
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Desmostylidae
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Cornwallius sookensis
(Cornwall 1922)
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Domning 2008 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
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Enaliarctos tedfordi n. sp.
Berta 1991
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Berta 1991 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Oregon | County: | Lincoln |
| Coordinates: | 44.5° North, 124.1° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 44.2° North, 115.1° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Oligocene |
| Stage: | Chattian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 4 |
| Key time interval: | Chattian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 27.82000 - 23.03000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | fine,gray sandstone |
| Secondary lithology: | siltstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | excellent |
| Articulated whole bodies: | some |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | USNM |
Metadata
| Also known as: | UO 2503, north of Seal Rock, UWBM C1024 | ||
| Database number: | 45782 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2004-12-01 10:28:45 | Last modified: | 2018-01-02 12:22:22 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-12-01 10:28:45 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 12129. | D. Emlong. 1966. A new archaic cetacean from the Oligocene of Northwest Oregon. Bulletin of the Museum of Natural History, University of Oregon 3:1-51 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 16742 | A. Berta. 1991. New Enaliacrtos* (Pinnipedimorpha) from the Oligocene and Miocene of Oregon and the role of "enaliarctids" in pinniped phylogeny. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 69:1-33 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 30424 | D. P. Domning. 2008. Desmostylia. In C. M. Janis, G. F. Gunnell, M. D. Uhen (eds.), Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America, Volume II 640-645 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 55050 | F. G. Marx and R. E. Fordyce. 2015. Baleen boom and bust: a synthesis of mysticete phylogeny, diversity and disparity. Royal Society Open Science 2:140434 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 64368 | A. W. Poust. 2018. Expanding the geographic and geochronologic range of early pinnipeds: New specimens of Enaliarctos from Northern California and Oregon. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |