UCMP V-5053, Hemme Hills: Hemphillian, California
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Megalonychidae
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Megalonychidae indet.
Gervais 1855
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | California | County: | Contra Costa |
| Coordinates: | 37.8° North, 121.9° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 37.4° North, 119.4° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
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
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some genera |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | UCMP |
| Taxonomic list comments:discussed by Tedford et al. 1987 but no references are given and only the megalonychid is mentioned, making date of 5.5 +/- 0.2 Ma for a Pinole Tuff equivalent unit below the fauna useless formation overlies Green Hills Fm.: Tedford et al. 1987 | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 19365 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2002-05-15 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2017-04-16 20:07:26 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-05-15 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 1919. | S. E. Hirschfeld and S. D. Webb. 1968. Plio-Pleistocene Megalonychid Sloths of North America. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum 12(5) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju] |