Keam's Canyon: Late/Upper Hemphillian, Arizona
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Teleoceras sp.
Hatcher 1894
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Prothero 1998 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Titanotylopus nebraskensis
Barbour and Schultz 1934
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| this may be Gigantocamelus spatulus, since Breyer seems to accept the synonymy of the two species or at least genera | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Arizona | County: | Navajo |
| Coordinates: | 35.8° North, 110.1° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 36.2° North, 108.5° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
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
| Stratigraphy comments: said to be late Hemphillian |
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some genera |
Metadata
| Database number: | 19390 | ||
| 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:
| 1131. | J. A. Breyer. 1983. The Biostratigraphic Utility of Camel Metapodials. Journal of Paleontology 57(2) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju] |
Secondary references:
| 6218 | D. R. Prothero. 1998. Rhinocerotidae. In C. M. Janis, K. M. Scott, and L. L. Jacobs (eds.), Evolution of Tertiary mammals of North America 595-605 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |