Also known as OMNH V972
Where: Churchill County, Nevada (39.2° N, 117.9° W: paleocoordinates 40.0° N, 114.9° W)
• coordinate based on unpublished field data
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Monarch Mill Formation, Barstovian (16.3 - 12.5 Ma)
• Age estimated to be 10-15Ma based on radiometric date from within unit.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; claystone and conglomerate
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: K. Smith, N. Czaplewski, and R. L. Cifelli. 2016. Middle Miocene carnivorans from the Monarch Mill Formation, Nevada. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 61(1):231-252 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/J. Marcot]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 181725: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 29.09.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Negodiaetictis rugatrulleum n. gen. n. sp.
Negodiaetictis rugatrulleum n. gen. n. sp. Smith et al. 2016 mustelid carnivore | |
Actiocyon parverratis Smith et al. 2016 red panda | |
Tomarctus brevirostris Cope 1873 bone-crushing dog |