Nightingale Road (Miocene of the United States)

Also known as UCMP V-4844

Where: Churchill County, Nevada (39.5° N, 118.5° W: paleocoordinates 40.1° N, 116.1° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Truckee Formation, Clarendonian (13.6 - 10.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: J. R. Macdonald. 1956. A new Clarendonian mammalian fauna from the Truckee Formation of western Nevada. Journal of Paleontology 30(1):186-202 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 18987: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.03.1995, edited by Jonathan Marcot

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• lower part of lower mbr. just above Brady Pocket: Kelly 1995a
Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Aphelops megalodus2 Cope 1873 rhinoceros
 Carnivora - Mustelidae
? Mustelidae indet. Fischer 1817 mustelid carnivore
Lutrini indet.1 Gray 1865 otter
 Carnivora - Canidae
Epicyon saevus3 Leidy 1858 bone-crushing dog
F:AM specimen
 Proboscidea - Proboscidea
Proboscidea indet. proboscidean