Univ. of California Locality V 2804: Early/Lower Pliocene, Nevada
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Nevada |
| Coordinates: | 38.0° North, 118.0° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 37.9° North, 116.7° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| Altitude: | 5500 feet | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
| Stage: | Zanclean | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| *Period: | Late/Upper Tertiary - Late/Upper Tertiary | *Epoch: | Early/Lower Pliocene - Early/Lower Pliocene |
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Pliocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 5.33300 - 3.60000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Esmeralda | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: the age is given "by the mammalian fauna and the flora" | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | fluvial-lacustrine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Associated major elements: | some |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Collection size: | 1 individuals |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Fish Lake Valley, on the west side of a 6000-foot ridge | ||
| Database number: | 13099 | ||
| Authorizer: | E. Fara | Enterer: | E. Fara |
| Modifier: | C. Visaggi | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2002-01-21 08:49:11 | Last modified: | 2004-07-07 20:29:21 |
| Access level: | group members | Released: | 2002-01-21 08:49:11 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 4366. | 5% 43360 | R. G. Zweifel. 1956. Two pelobatid frogs from the Tertiary of North America and their relationships to fossil and recent forms. American Museum Novitates 1762:1-45 [E. Fara/E. Fara/J. Alroy] |