Hoye Canyon (UCMP V-95013) (Neogene of the United States)

Also known as LACM 6993

Where: Douglas County, Nevada (38.8° N, 119.5° W: paleocoordinates 38.7° N, 116.7° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Hemphillian (10.3 - 4.9 Ma)

• said to be late Hemphillian

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: T. S. Kelly. 1997. Additional Late Cenozoic (latest Hemphillian to earliest Irvingtonian) mammals from Douglas County, Nevada. PaleoBios 18(1):1-31 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]more details

PaleoDB collection 19374: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• material of Kelly 2000 is newly collected
Hoye Canyon localilities are in the same unnamed formation as the Wellington Hills localities, but well to the north and cannot be projected into the same section based on lateral tracing
generically determinate NISP 29
Mammalia
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
Marmota korthi n. sp. Kelly 2000 marmot
"Marmota or Cynomys"
Spermophilus wellingtonensis Kelly 1997 ground squirrel
 Rodentia - Geomyidae
Parapliosaccomys oregonensis Shotwell 1967 pocket gopher
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Pronotolagus nevadensis n. sp. Kelly 2000 rabbit
may include older specimen of "Leporidae indet."
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
"Hemiauchenia vera" = Pleiolama vera
"Hemiauchenia vera" = Pleiolama vera Matthew 1909 camel
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Dinohippus sp. Quinn 1955 horse