Camel Canyon: Hemphillian, Arizona
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Mammutidae
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Pliomastodon sp.
Osborn 1926
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= Mammut sp.
Blumenbach 1799
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Felidae
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Machairodus sp.
Kaup 1833
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Procyonidae
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Bassariscus sp.
Coues 1887
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= Procyonidae indet.
Gray 1825
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Ursidae
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Agriotherium sp.
Wagner 1837
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Osteoborus sp.
Stirton and VanderHoof 1933
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= Borophaginae indet.
Simpson 1945
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
Eucyon davisi
(Merriam 1911)
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Tedford et al. 2009 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equini indet.
Quinn 1955
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"Pliohippus or Dinohippus" | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Megatylopus sp.
(Matthew and Cook 1909)
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= Camelidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
Hemiauchenia sp.
Gervais and Ameghino 1880
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Protolabini indet.
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= Alforjas sp.
Harrison 1979
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Breyer 1983 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Antilocapridae
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Texoceros sp.
Frick 1937
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Arizona | County: | Pinal |
Coordinates: | 32.9° North, 110.8° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 33.3° North, 109.2° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Neogene | ||
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
*Period: | Tertiary | *Epoch: | Miocene |
Key time interval: | Hemphillian | ||
Age range of interval: | 10.30000 - 4.90000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | not reported |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Taxonomic list comments:date of "5.9 +/- 0.5 Ma" reported by Latorre et al. 1997 appears to be based on paleomag of Lindsay et al. 1984 |
Metadata
Also known as: | UALP 19, 6892, 6944, 6945, and 6949 | ||
Database number: | 19272 | ||
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 12:26:34 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
6333. | E. H. Lindsay. 1978. Late Cenozoic vertebrate faunas, southeastern Arizona. Guidebook - New Mexico Geological Society 29:269-275 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
1131 | J. A. Breyer. 1983. The Biostratigraphic Utility of Camel Metapodials. Journal of Paleontology 57(2) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju] | |
52058 | R. H. Tedford, X. Wang, and B. E. Taylor. 2009. Phylogenetic Systematics of the North American Fossil Caninae (Carnivora: Canidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 325:1-218 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot/G. Lloyd] |