Coal Valley (UCMP V-4808) (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Mineral County, Nevada (38.5° N, 118.3° W: paleocoordinates 39.2° N, 115.5° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Coal Valley Formation, Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: D. I. Axelrod. 1956. Mio-Pliocene floras from west-central Nevada. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 33:1-321 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

PaleoDB collection 18861: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 12.04.1997

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Taxonomic list

• 200' level of Unit "1"
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Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Proboscidea
Proboscidea indet.
Proboscidea indet. proboscidean
"mastodont"
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparionini indet.
Hipparionini indet. Quinn 1955 hipparionine horse
"Nannippus"
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Camelidae indet.
Camelidae indet. Gray 1821 camel
 Carnivora - Canidae
Epicyon cf. saevus
Epicyon cf. saevus Leidy 1858 bone-crushing dog
from "Coal Valley"; apparently "? Aelurodon" from this locality, and perhaps "Aelurodon" from "Coal Valley" of Macdonald and Pelletier 1958