TABLE 6. Paleohabitats plausibly occupied by small vertebrate taxa at MNA locality 318, based on habitat selection by living relatives. Available plant paleocommunities based on palynological and other data compiled by Nations et al. (1981).

 

Vertebrate Taxa in

Shallow, Open

Marshy

Deciduous

 

Open

Order of Relative

Lake/Algal

Lake

Riparian

 

Oak-Juniper

Abundance

Beds

Margin

Gallery Forest

Grasslands

Savanna

 

 

 

 

 

 

Prodipodomys idahoensis

 

 

 

X

?

Geomys (Nerterogeomys) minor

 

 

 

X

X

Bensonomys arizonae

 

 

X

?

X

Sigmodon minor

 

X

 

X

X

Emberizidae/Fringillidae

 

 

X

X

X

Perognathus strigipredus

 

 

 

X

X

Onychomys bensoni

 

 

 

X

X

Reithrodontomys cf. R. wetmorei

 

 

 

X

X

Neotoma vaughani

 

 

X

 

X

Postcopemys sp.

 

?

X

X

X

Jacobsomys verdensis

 

 

 

 

X

Soricidae

 

X

X

 

X

Lasiurus cf. L. blossevillii

 

 

X

 

 

Prosigmodon holocuspis

 

X

 

X

X

Urodela

X