Yerington (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 19129: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 27.09.1993, edited by Jonathan Marcot

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Taxonomic list

• said to be stratigraphically higher than the Smiths Valley fauna by Macdonald and Pelletier 1958
Mammalia
 Rodentia - Castoridae
Eucastor sp. Allen 1877 beaver
described by Stirton 1935 as E. cf. lecontei DUPLICATE REF 3234 or 3235
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Teleoceras hicksi2 Cook 1927 rhinoceros
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Dinohippus spectans1 Cope 1880 horse
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
? Megatylopus sp.1 Matthew and Cook 1909 camel
Hemiauchenia sp.1 Gervais and Ameghino 1880 camel
 Artiodactyla - Antilocapridae
Antilocapridae indet. Gray 1866 pronghorn
DUPLICATE REF 3234 or 3235
 Carnivora - Felidae
Felidae indet.1 Gray 1821 cat
 Proboscidea - Proboscidea
Proboscidea indet.1 proboscidean