A NEW SPECIES OF CAPROMERYX (MAMMALIA, ARTIODACTYLA) FROM THE TAUNTONLOCAL FAUNA OF WASHINGTON, AND THE CORRELATION WITH OTHER BLANCAN FAUNAS OF WASHINGTON AND IDAHO

Citation
Jk. Morgan et Nh. Morgan, A NEW SPECIES OF CAPROMERYX (MAMMALIA, ARTIODACTYLA) FROM THE TAUNTONLOCAL FAUNA OF WASHINGTON, AND THE CORRELATION WITH OTHER BLANCAN FAUNAS OF WASHINGTON AND IDAHO, Journal of vertebrate paleontology, 15(1), 1995, pp. 160-170
Citations number
31
Categorie Soggetti
Paleontology
ISSN journal
02724634
Volume
15
Issue
1
Year of publication
1995
Pages
160 - 170
Database
ISI
SICI code
0272-4634(1995)15:1<160:ANSOC(>2.0.ZU;2-6
Abstract
A large new species of the antilocaprid genus Capromeryx has been reco vered from Blancan sediments of the Taunton locality, southwestern Ada ms County, Washington. The complex history of the genus is briefly rev iewed and Capromeryx tauntonensis, sp. nov., is described from cranial and dental elements. Intermediate in size between Capromeryx arizonen sis Skinner and Antilocapra americana Ord, C. tauntonensis is the olde st and largest representative of the genus, and adds to a species seri es reaching from the mid-Blancan to the Rancholabrean. Based on expand ed faunal evidence, the age of the Taunton l.f. is revised upward from equivalency with the lower Hagerman to a mid-Gauss correlation, inter mediate between the Hagerman l.f. and Grand View l.f. of Idaho.