Monarch Mill (Upper): Miocene, Nevada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Gomphotheriidae
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? Gomphotheriidae indet.
Hay 1922
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Felidae
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Felidae indet.
Gray 1821
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| "Felid or (?) Machairodont" | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Camelidae indet.
Gray 1821
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| small | ||||||||||
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cf. Megatylopus sp.
(Matthew and Cook 1909)
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| original and current combination Pliauchenia (Megatylopus) | ||||||||||
| "cf. Paracamelus"; comparisons are to "P. cf. gigas" from the "Hemphill fauna" | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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? Teleoceras sp.
Hatcher 1894
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Nevada | County: | Churchill |
| Coordinates: | 39.5° North, 118.5° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 40.2° North, 115.7° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5-6 | ||
| *Period: | Tertiary | ||
| Key time interval: | Miocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 23.03000 - 5.33300 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Monarch Mill | Member: | upper |
| Local section: | Mnrch | Local bed: | 2 |
| Local order: | bottom to top |
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Museum repositories: | UCMP |
| Taxonomic list comments:appears to be the same as the Eastgate fauna of Macdonald and Pelletier 1958, said to be from a Truckee Fm. locality 9.5 km west of Eastgate | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | UCMP V-5200 | ||
| Database number: | 18982 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-06-03 03:27:43 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 969. | 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] |