Always Welcome Inn upper facies ( of the United States)

Where: Oregon (44.8° N, 117.8° W: paleocoordinates 44.9° N, 117.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Blancan (4.9 - 1.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siltstone

• The upper half of the Always Welcome Inn section begins with a 1.5-m-thick layer of light yellow, light

•gray, and light brown massive and laminated silts ... overlain by a 3.5-m-thick fining-upward sequence of trough cross-bedded silty fine sand and light yellow, light brown, and light gray massive and laminated silts that contain [list of bones].

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (float), sieve

Primary reference: J. Van Tassell, E. Bergey, C. Davis, M. Davis, B. Grimshaw, J. Kisselburg, R. Ledgerwood, S. Miller, C. Morris, J. Steele, and C. Wehymiller. 2007. Early Pliocene (Blancan) Always Welcome Inn local fauna, Baker City, Oregon. Oregon Geology 68:3-23 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 225473: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 10.05.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Diatoms, plants, sponges, and ostracods not included but reported to be present
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Actinopteri
 Cypriniformes - Cyprinidae
Cyprinidae indet.
Cyprinidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 carp-like fish
Amphibia
  -
Amphibia indet.
Amphibia indet. Linnaeus 1758 tetrapod
frog/salamander
Reptilia
 Serpentes -
Serpentes indet.
Serpentes indet. snake
"Thamnophis or Nerodius"
Aves
 Gruiformes - Rallidae
Rallidae indet.
Rallidae indet. Vigors 1825 rail
 Neornithes -
Strigiformes indet.
Strigiformes indet. Wagler 1830 owl
 Anseriformes - Anatidae
Anatidae indet.
Anatidae indet. Vigors 1825 waterfowl
Reptilia
 Testudines -
Testudines indet.
Testudines indet. Batsch 1788 turtle
"Trachemys ... or Clemmys"
Mammalia
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
? Hypolagus sp.
? Hypolagus sp. Dice 1917 rabbit
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
"Ophiomys sp." = Mimomys
"Ophiomys sp." = Mimomys Forsyth-Major 1902 vole
 Rodentia - Castoridae
Dipoides cf. vallicula, Dipoides cf. wilsoni
Dipoides cf. vallicula Shotwell 1970 beaver
Dipoides cf. wilsoni Hibbard 1949 beaver
 Rodentia - Geomyidae
Geomyidae indet.
Geomyidae indet. Bonaparte 1845 pocket gopher
 Theriamorpha - Soricidae
Paracryptotis rex
Paracryptotis rex Hibbard 1950 red-toothed shrew
 Placentalia -
Carnivora indet.
Carnivora indet. Bowdich 1821 carnivoran
"small carnivore"
 Carnivora - Mustelidae
Trigonictis sp.
Trigonictis sp. Hibbard 1941 mustelid carnivore