Werner Homestead: Middle Miocene - Late/Upper Miocene, Oregon
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Mammutidae
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Gomphotherium cingulatum n. sp.
Downs 1951
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= Gomphotherium obscurum
Leidy 1869
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Alroy 2002 | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Oregon | County: | Baker |
| Coordinates: | 44.8° North, 117.6° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 45.4° North, 115.3° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| *Period: | Tertiary | ||
| Key time interval: | Middle Miocene - Late/Upper Miocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 15.98000 - 5.33300 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | medium,ferruginous,tuffaceous poorly lithified sandstone |
| Environment: | fluvial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | UCMP |
| Taxonomic list comments:isolated specimen | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | UCMP V-4947 | ||
| Database number: | 19115 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | J. Marcot | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2002-05-15 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2023-10-19 15:46:06 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-05-15 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 1392. | T. Downs. 1952. A new mastodont from the Miocene of Oregon. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 29(1):1-20 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] |
Secondary references:
| 6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] |