Massacre Lake RV-7318: Hemingfordian, Nevada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Aphelops sp.
Owen 1845
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= Aphelops megalodus
Cope 1873
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Prothero 2005 | ||||||
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Mammalia
- Merycoidodontidae
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Ticholeptus aff. zygomaticus
Cope 1878
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Nevada | County: | Washoe |
| Coordinates: | 41.7° North, 119.7° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 42.7° North, 116.1° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Burdigalian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 |
| *Period: | Tertiary | ||
| Key time interval: | Hemingfordian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 18.5 - 16.3 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
Metadata
| Database number: | 18965 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot | Enterer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2009-12-18 13:54:58 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 2608. | M. F. Morea. 1981. The Massacre Lake local fauna (Mammalia, Hemingfordian) from northwestern Washoe County, Nevada. Ph. D. thesis UC Riverside 247 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] |
Secondary references:
| 51726 | D. R. Prothero. 2005. The Evolution of North American Rhinoceroses. 1-218 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot] |