Hoye Canyon (UCMP V-95013): Late/Upper Hemphillian, Nevada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Dinohippus sp.
Quinn 1955
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Kelly 2000 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Hemiauchenia vera
(Matthew 1909)
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Kelly 2000 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| recombined as Pleiolama vera | ||||||||||
| (1 measurement) | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Pronotolagus nevadensis n. sp.
Kelly 2000
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Kelly 2000 | 5 specimens | ||||||||
| may include older specimen of "Leporidae indet." (2 measurements) | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Sciuridae
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Marmota korthi n. sp.
Kelly 2000
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Kelly 2000 | 4 specimens | ||||||||
| "Marmota or Cynomys" (4 measurements) | ||||||||||
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Spermophilus wellingtonensis
Kelly 1997
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Geomyidae
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Nerterogeomys sp.
Gazin 1942
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14 specimens | |||||||||
| (1 measurement) | ||||||||||
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= Parapliosaccomys oregonensis
Shotwell 1967
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Kelly 2000 | |||||||||
| "? Thomomys | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Nevada | County: | Douglas |
| Coordinates: | 38.8° North, 119.5° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 38.7° North, 116.7° 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 | *Local age/stage: | Late/Upper Hemphillian |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Hemphillian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 9.40000 - 4.70000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Local section: | HoyeC | Local bed: | 1 | ||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: said to be late Hemphillian | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection size: | 29 specimens |
| Museum repositories: | UCMP |
| Taxonomic list comments:material of Kelly 2000 is newly collected Hoye Canyon localilities are in the same unnamed formation as the Wellington Hills localities, but well to the north and cannot be projected into the same section based on lateral tracing generically determinate NISP 29 | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | LACM 6993 | ||
| Database number: | 19374 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2002-05-15 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-06-03 03:27:43 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-05-15 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 2066. | T. S. Kelly. 1997. Additional Late Cenozoic (latest Hemphillian to earliest Irvingtonian) mammals from Douglas County, Nevada. PaleoBios 18(1):1-31 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju] |
Secondary references:
| 2069 | T. S. Kelly. 2000. A new Hemphillian (Late Miocene) mammalian fauna from Hoye Canyon, west central Nevada. Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 481:1-21 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |