Siphon Canal: Hemphillian, California
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Megalonychidae
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Pliometanastes protistus
Hirschfeld and Webb 1968
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | California | County: | Stanislaus |
| Coordinates: | 37.6° North, 120.8° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 37.5° North, 118.0° 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 | *Local age/stage: | Early/Lower Hemphillian |
| Key time interval: | Hemphillian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 9.40000 - 4.70000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Mehrten | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: said to be early Hemphillian |
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some genera |
| Museum repositories: | UCMP |
| Taxonomic list comments:4 m below a tuff dated at 8.19 +/- 0.16 Ma (KA) | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | UCMP V-72004 | ||
| Database number: | 19546 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2002-05-15 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-06-03 03:27:43 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-05-15 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 1918. | S. E. Hirschfeld. 1981. Pliometanastes protistus (Edentata: Megalonychidae) from Knight's Ferry, California with a discussion of early Hemphillian megalonychids. PaleoBios 36:1-16 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju] |