Willow Canyon (Miocene of the United States)
Also known as DUPLICATE REF 3234 or 3235
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: Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Primary reference: R. A. Stirton. 1940. The Nevada Miocene and Pliocene mammalian faunas as faunal units. Proceedings of the Sixth Pacific Science Congress 2:627-640 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details
PaleoDB collection 19125: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• said by Macdonald and Pelletier 1958 to be from the Esmerala Fm.
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Pliohippus cf. tantalus Merriam 1913 horse only record; "strongly curved"; genus assignment probably OK DUPLICATE REF 3234 or 3235
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