Camel Canyon: Hemphillian, Arizona

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Pliomastodon sp. Osborn 1926
    = Mammut sp. Blumenbach 1799
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Machairodus sp. Kaup 1833
Mammalia - Carnivora - Procyonidae
Bassariscus sp. Coues 1887
    = Procyonidae indet. Gray 1825
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Agriotherium sp. Wagner 1837
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
    = Borophaginae indet. Simpson 1945
Alroy 2002
Eucyon davisi (Merriam 1911)
Tedford et al. 2009
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equini indet. Quinn 1955
"Pliohippus or Dinohippus"
Mammalia - Camelidae
Megatylopus sp. (Matthew and Cook 1909)
    = Camelidae indet. Gray 1821
Alroy 2002
Hemiauchenia sp. Gervais and Ameghino 1880
Protolabini indet.
    = Alforjas sp. Harrison 1979
Breyer 1983
Mammalia - Antilocapridae
Texoceros sp. Frick 1937
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]