McKnight Ranch (Miocene to of the United States)
Where: Elko County, Nevada (41.0° N, 115.5° W: paleocoordinates 41.6° N, 112.8° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Barstovian to Barstovian (16.3 - 9.4 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. C. Merriam. 1914. The Occurrence of Tertiary Mammalian Remains in Northeastern Nevada. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geology 8(12):275-281 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 18971: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• material reported by King 1878 from "Bone Valley" may be from this or another locality according to Merriam; King's material includes equids and a merycodont but his names are unreliable
see also Stirton 1940
see also Stirton 1940
Show authors, comments, and common names
| Mammalia | |
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Carnivora indet. Bowdich 1821 carnivoran | |
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Equinae indet. Steinmann and Döderlein 1890 horse | |
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Merycodontinae indet. Matthew 1904 pronghorn | |
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Camelidae indet. Gray 1821 camel | |