Upper Petrified Canyon: Hemphillian, Nevada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Ursidae
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Indarctos nevadensis
Macdonald 1959
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Rhinocerotidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Mammutidae
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Mammut nevadanus
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= Mammut matthewi
Osborn 1921
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Nevada | County: | Lyon |
| Coordinates: | 39.0° North, 119.2° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 39.4° North, 117.6° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | ||
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| *Period: | Tertiary | *Epoch: | Miocene |
| Key time interval: | Hemphillian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 9.40000 - 4.70000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
Metadata
| Also known as: | UCMP V-4841; Smiths Valley in part | ||
| Database number: | 19101 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1993-09-27 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2007-11-01 12:38:19 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-09-27 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 2348. | 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] |
Secondary references:
| 6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] |