Churchill Butte: Hemphillian, Nevada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Proboscidea
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Proboscidea indet.
Illiger 1811
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Canidae indet.
Fischer de Waldheim 1817
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Felidae
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Felidae indet.
Gray 1821
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3 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equidae indet.
Gray 1821
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4 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Rhinocerotidae indet.
Gray 1821
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Tayassuidae
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Tayassuidae indet.
Palmer 1897
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Camelidae indet.
Gray 1821
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28 specimens | |||||||||
| three size classes | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Leporidae indet.
Fischer de Waldheim 1817
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4 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Castoridae
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Dipoides cf. wilsoni
Hibbard 1949
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9 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Geomyidae
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Parapliosaccomys oregonensis
Shotwell 1967
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Nevada | County: | Lyon |
| Coordinates: | 39.0° North, 119.2° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 39.4° North, 117.6° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
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
| Formation: | "Coal Valley" |
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection size: | 10 specimens |
| Taxonomic list comments:generically identifiable NISP 10 | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | W. M. Keck Museum locality P-0101 | ||
| Database number: | 18850 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1999-10-13 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2009-12-20 13:23:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1999-10-13 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 2073. | T. S. Kelly and T. P. Lugaski. 1999. A Hemphillian (late Miocene) mammalian fauna from the Desert Mountains, west central Nevada. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 98(1):1-14 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |