Massacre Lake RV-7318 (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Washoe County, Nevada (41.7° N, 119.7° W: paleocoordinates 42.7° N, 116.1° W)

• 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 18965: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993, edited by Jonathan Marcot

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Aphelops megalodus Cope 1873 rhinoceros
 Artiodactyla - Merycoidodontidae
Ticholeptus aff. zygomaticus Cope 1878 oreodont