Cottonwood Creek Valley (Miocene to of the United States)

Where: Eureka County, Nevada (40.7° N, 116.1° W: paleocoordinates 41.6° N, 112.6° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Carlin Formation, Late/Upper Hemingfordian to Late/Upper Hemingfordian (20.4 - 12.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. S. Kelly and E. B. Lander. 1988. Biostratigraphy and Correlation of Hemingfordian and Barstovian Land Mammal Assemblages, Caliente Formation, Cuyama Valley Area, California. In W. J. M. Bazeley (ed.), Tertiary Tectonics and Sedimentation in the Cuyama Basin, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and Ventura Counties, California 1-19 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 18866: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002, edited by Jonathan Marcot

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Taxonomic list

• there are many places called "Cottonwood Creek" in Nevada, but the Carlin Formation is mostly or entirely exposed in this county
Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Merycoidodontidae
Brachycrus laticeps Douglass 1900 oreodont
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Teleoceras medicornutum Osborn 1904 rhinoceros
"UCMP Loc. V-5264"