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
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Mammalia | |
Ticholeptus aff. zygomaticus Cope 1878 oreodont | |
Bouromeryx americanus Douglass 1899 ruminant | |
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Protospermophilus angusticeps Matthew 1933 squirrel | |
"Mesogaulus vetus" = Alphagaulus vetus
"Mesogaulus vetus" = Alphagaulus vetus Matthew 1924 rodent |