Mickey Wash Site 1 (Neogene of the United States)

Also known as UCMP V-4713; Smiths Valley in part

Where: Lyon County, Nevada (39.0° N, 119.2° W: paleocoordinates 39.4° N, 117.6° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Hemphillian (10.3 - 4.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: J. R. Macdonald. 1959. The Middle Pliocene Mammalian Fauna from Smiths Valley, Nevada. Journal of Paleontology 33(5):872-887 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details

PaleoDB collection 18973: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 27.09.1993

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Taxonomic list

• NE slope of Pine Grove Hills; Gilbert and Reynolds 1973 indicate that the basal unit here is a marker shale that caps the Aldritch Station/ Coal Valley section
Mammalia
 Rodentia - Castoridae
Dipoides cf. stirtoni2 Wilson 1934 beaver
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Dinohippus cf. spectans1 Cope 1880 horse
 Artiodactyla - Tayassuidae
Tayassuinae indet.1 Palmer 1897 peccary
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Camelidae indet. Gray 1821 camel