Turlock Lake (UCMP V-5836): Late/Upper Hemphillian, California

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Dipoides vallicula Shotwell 1970
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Teleoceras fossiger (Cope 1878)
Prothero 2005
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Neohipparion cf. leptode Merriam 1915
Dinohippus interpolatus (Cope 1893)
Mammalia - Palaeomerycidae
Pediomeryx cf. hemphillensis Stirton 1936
Webb 1983
"Modesto Reservoir"
Mammalia - Carnivora - Procyonidae
Procyon sp. Storr 1780
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Mustelidae indet. Fischer 1817
"Sminthosinis or Trigonictis ?"
Plesiogulo marshalli (Martin 1928)
Harrison 1981
"Modesto Reservoir" (1 measurement)
Pliotaxidea garberi n. sp. Wagner 1976
(17 measurements)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Eucyon davisi (Merriam 1911)
Tedford et al. 2009
"Turlock locality 4, UCMP locality V5837, Mehrten Formation (late Hemphillian), Stanislaus County, California"
Borophagus parvus Wang et al. 1999
Wang et al. 1999
LACM locs. 3908, 3909, 3926, 3942; "Osteoborus sp."
Borophagus secundus VanderHoof 1931
Wang et al. 1999
LACM loc. 3942
Actinopteri - Salmoniformes - Salmonidae
Oncorhynchus rastrosus (Cavender and Miller 1972)
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:10.30000 - 4.90000 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, J. Marcot, P. Holroyd
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]