Also known as UCMP V5204; Virginia City

Where: Storey County, Nevada (39.4° N, 119.6° W: paleocoordinates 40.0° N, 117.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: "Truckee" Formation, Clarendonian (12.5 - 9.4 Ma)

• "diatomite interbedded in the top of the Kate Peak andesite... definitely Clarendonian" on the basis of directly associated floral remains and correlation with Brady Pocket

•not the Truckee formation sensu stricto

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithified diatomite

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by V. K. Johnson, D. H. Hall in 1951; reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: I. La Rivers. 1953. A lower Pliocene frog from western Nevada. Journal of Paleontology 27(1):77-81 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 85084: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 25.11.2008

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