Shields Ranch Quarry: Clarendonian, Arizona

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Epicyon haydeni (Leidy 1858)
Mammalia - Camelidae
Michenia yavapaiensis Honey and Taylor 1978
Honey and Taylor 1978
recombined as Protolabis yavapaiensis
Protolabis coartatus (Stirton 1929)
Honey and Taylor 1978
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Arizona County:Yavapai
Coordinates: 34.5° North, 112.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.1° North, 110.1° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5-6
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval:Clarendonian
Age range of interval:12.50000 - 9.40000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Milk Creek
Local section:MilkC Local bed:1
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Taxonomic list comments:"same horizon as Manzanita Quarry"
Metadata
Also known as:Stein Gallery; UALP locality 1-7
Database number:19543
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:B. Allen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2000-05-19 00:00:00 Last modified:2023-07-29 08:51:38
Access level:the public Released:2000-05-19 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

3558. X. Wang, R. H. Tedford, and B. E. Taylor. 1999. Phylogenetic systematics of the Borophaginae (Carnivora: Canidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 243:1-392 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

1934 J. G. Honey and B. E. Taylor. 1978. A generic revision of the Protolabidini (Mammalia, Camelidae), with a description of two new protolabidines. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 161(3):367-426 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]