Massacre Lake RV-6160 (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Washoe County, Nevada (41.7° N, 119.7° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 46.5° N, 113.0° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Hemingfordian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: M. F. Morea. 1981. The Massacre Lake local fauna (Mammalia, Hemingfordian) from northwestern Washoe County, Nevada. Ph. D. thesis UC Riverside 247 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details

PaleoDB collection 18960: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Merycoidodontidae
Ticholeptus aff. zygomaticus Cope 1878 oreodont
 Artiodactyla - Dromomerycidae
Bouromeryx americanus Douglass 1899 ruminant
 Rodentia - Aplodontidae
Liodontia sp. Miller and Gidley 1918 mountain beaver
said to be new
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
Protospermophilus angusticeps Matthew 1933 squirrel
 Rodentia - Mylagaulidae
"Mesogaulus vetus" = Alphagaulus vetus
"Mesogaulus vetus" = Alphagaulus vetus Matthew 1924 rodent