Coal Valley (UCMP V-4705) (Miocene of the United States)

Also known as Aldrich Station

Where: Mineral County, Nevada (38.5° N, 118.3° W: paleocoordinates 39.2° N, 115.5° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: basal Member (Coal Valley Formation), Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: D. I. Axelrod. 1956. Mio-Pliocene floras from west-central Nevada. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 33:1-321 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

PaleoDB collection 18858: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 27.09.1993

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Taxonomic list

• same unit as UCMP V-3939
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Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
cf. Rhynchotherium sp.2
cf. Rhynchotherium sp.2 Falconer 1868 gomphothere
"? Rhynchotherium"
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparion tehonense
Hipparion tehonense Merriam 1916 hipparionine horse
"Nannippus"; presumably "Nannippus tehonensis" of Stirton 1940 and Evernden et al. 1964
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Teleoceras fossiger1
Teleoceras fossiger1 Cope 1878 rhinoceros
pers. comm.: presumably "? Aphelops"
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Camelidae indet.
Camelidae indet. Gray 1821 camel
1Prothero 1989; 2Tedford et al. 1987