Also known as Double Butte; Limestone Corner; Rodent Quarry; UALP locality 8197
Where: Lincoln County, Nevada (37.8° N, 114.3° W: paleocoordinates 38.0° N, 113.7° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Panaca Formation, Blancan (4.9 - 1.8 Ma)
• said to be Blancan I and between 4.95 and 4.50 based on biochronology (lower bound) and paleomag (upper bound) by Mead and Taylor 2005
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; siltstone and sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Reposited in the AMNH
Collection methods: quarrying
Primary reference: R. E. Reynolds and E. H. Lindsay. 1999. Late Tertiary basins and vertebrate faunas along the Nevada-Utah border. Utah Geological Survey Miscellaneous Publication 99-1:469-478 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 19965: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 19.05.2000, edited by Jonathan Marcot
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
•UALP 8197 is only 10 m NE of Limestone Corner and 1 m higher stratigraphically; both are 1.6 km NE of Panaca
•? Teleoceras sp. of Stock 1921 from LACM 3546 is implied to be from low in the section, but this appears to be based on a priori biochronological considerations
Reptilia | |
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Mammalia | |
? Cuvieronius sp. Osborn 1923 gomphothere | |
Pewelagus dawsonae, Hypolagus ringoldensis, Hypolagus edensis, Nekrolagus progressus, Lepoides lepoides
Hypolagus ringoldensis Gustafson 1978 rabbit | |
Repomys sp., Repomys panacaensis, Ondatra sp., Ophiomys magilli, Mimomys panacaensis n. sp.4, Neotoma sp.
Repomys sp. May 1981 mouse
Mimomys panacaensis n. sp.4 Mou 1997 vole UALP 8197; clearly includes "Ophiomys mcknighti" of Reynolds and Lindsay, who fail to cite this paper
Neotoma sp. Say and Ord 1825 pack rat | |
Prodipodomys sp. Hibbard 1939 rodent | |
Notiosorex sp. Baird 1877 gray shrew | |
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Borophagus cf. diversidens Cope 1892 bone-crushing dog probably includes record of Wang et al. 1999 from "Channel Sands Pocket, Panaca Formation... near Panaca"
Canis lepophagus Johnston 1938 canine | |
? Martinogale sp. Hall 1930 skunk | |
Bassariscus sp. Coues 1887 ringtail | |
Taxidea sp. Waterhouse 1839 badger | |
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"Equus cf. simplicidens" = Plesippus simplicidens Cope 1892 horse
Dinohippus sp. Quinn 1955 horse
Equus (Hemionus) sp. Stehlin and Graziosi 1935 horse | |
Hemiauchenia sp. Gervais and Ameghino 1880 camel
Megatylopus sp. Matthew and Cook 1909 camel | |
Sinocapra willdownsi n. sp.3
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Platygonus sp. Leconte 1848 peccary |