Turlock Lake (UCMP V-5836): Late/Upper Hemphillian, California
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Mustelidae
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Mustelidae indet.
Fischer 1817
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| "Sminthosinis or Trigonictis ?" | ||||||||||
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Plesiogulo marshalli
(Martin 1928)
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Harrison 1981 | |||||||||
| "Modesto Reservoir" (1 measurement) | ||||||||||
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Pliotaxidea garberi n. sp.
Wagner 1976
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| (17 measurements) | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Procyonidae
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Procyon sp.
Storr 1780
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Borophagus secundus
VanderHoof 1931
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Wang et al. 1999 | |||||||||
| LACM loc. 3942 | ||||||||||
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Borophagus parvus
Wang et al. 1999
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Wang et al. 1999 | |||||||||
| LACM locs. 3908, 3909, 3926, 3942; "Osteoborus sp." | ||||||||||
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Eucyon davisi
(Merriam 1911)
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Tedford et al. 2009 | |||||||||
| "Turlock locality 4, UCMP locality V5837, Mehrten Formation (late Hemphillian), Stanislaus County, California" | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Neohipparion cf. leptode
Merriam 1915
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Dinohippus interpolatus
(Cope 1893)
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Teleoceras fossiger
(Cope 1878)
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Prothero 2005 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Palaeomerycidae
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Pediomeryx cf. hemphillensis
Stirton 1936
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Webb 1983 | |||||||||
| "Modesto Reservoir" | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Castoridae
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Dipoides vallicula
Shotwell 1970
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Actinopteri
- Salmoniformes
- Salmonidae
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Oncorhynchus rastrosus
(Cavender and Miller 1972)
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Sankey et al. 2016 | |||||||||
| from LACM 3909=UCMP V5405, a channel fill distinct from other "Turlock Lake" localities | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
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: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | ||
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| *Period: | Tertiary | *Epoch: | Miocene | *Local age/stage: | Late/Upper Hemphillian |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Hemphillian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 9.40000 - 4.70000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Mehrten |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | volcaniclastic,red argillaceous mudstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: formation is ranges from "fine siltstones to coarse gravels" and Pliotaxidea specimen is from "a small channel deposit of reddish mudstone composed of volcanic ash and clay particles" | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
| Geology comments: "flood plain" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Articulated whole bodies: | some |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated minor elements: | many |
| Fragmentation: | frequent |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | UCMP |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Modesto Reservoir; Rhino Island (LACM loc. 3942); Rock Point (LACM loc. 3908); Sand Point (LACM loc. 3909); Turlock Lake Site 2 (LACM loc. 3926); UCMP V-5405 | ||
| Database number: | 19582 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot, P. Holroyd | Enterer: | J. Alroy, P. Holroyd, J. Marcot |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2006-09-13 00:33:17 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 6332. | H. Wagner. 1976. A new species of Pliotaxidea (Mustelidae; Carnivora) from California. Journal of Paleontology 50(1):107-127 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
| 1799 | J. A. Harrison. 1981. A review of the extinct wolverine, Plesiogulo (Carnivora: Mustelidae), from North America. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 46:1-27 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
| 51726 | D. R. Prothero. 2005. The Evolution of North American Rhinoceroses. 1-218 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot] | |
| 61129 | J. Sankey, J. Biewer, J. Basuga, F. Palacios, H. Wagner and D. Garber. 2016. The giant, spike-toothed salmon, Oncorhynchus rastrosus and the “Proto-Tuolumne River” (early Pliocene) of central California. PaleoBios 33:1-16 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd] | |
| 52058 | R. H. Tedford, X. Wang, and B. E. Taylor. 2009. Phylogenetic Systematics of the North American Fossil Caninae (Carnivora: Canidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 325:1-218 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot/G. Lloyd] | |
| 3558 | X. Wang, R. H. Tedford, and B. E. Taylor. 1999. Phylogenetic systematics of the Borophaginae (Carnivora: Canidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 243:1-392 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
| 3571 | S. D. Webb. 1983. A New Species of Pediomeryx from the Late Miocene of Florida, and Its Relationships within the Subfamily Cranioceratinae (Ruminantia: Dromomerycidae). Journal of Mammalogy 64(2) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju] |