Wichman: Blancan, Nevada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Kelly 1994 | |||||||||
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= Equus simplicidens
Cope 1892
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
| recombined as Plesippus simplicidens | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Cervidae
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Cervidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Paracamelus sp.
Schlosser 1903
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= Camelidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
| DUPLICATE REF 2345 or 2346 | ||||||||||
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? Camelops sp.
Leidy 1854
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| DUPLICATE REF 2345 or 2346 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Gomphotheriidae
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Gomphotheriidae indet.
Hay 1922
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| DUPLICATE REF 2345 or 2346 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Nevada | County: | Mineral |
| Coordinates: | 38.5° North, 118.3° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 38.7° North, 117.7° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| *Period: | Tertiary | *Epoch: | Pliocene |
| Key time interval: | Blancan | ||
| Age range of interval: | 4.70000 - 1.40000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | UCMP |
Metadata
| Also known as: | UCMP V-3914 | ||
| Database number: | 19967 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-10-17 19:11:12 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 2345. | J. R. Macdonald. 1956. A new Clarendonian mammalian fauna from the Truckee Formation of western Nevada. Journal of Paleontology 30(1):186-202 [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] | |
| 2062 | T. S. Kelly. 1994. Two Pliocene (Blancan) vertebrate faunas from Douglas County, Nevada. PaleoBios 16(1):1-23 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju] |