Fish Spring Flat (UCMP V-93043): Blancan, Nevada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus giganteus
Gidley 1901
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Gigantocamelus spatulus
(Cope 1893)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
"spatula" | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Nevada | County: | Douglas |
Coordinates: | 38.8° North, 119.5° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 38.8° North, 118.5° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
*Period: | Tertiary | *Epoch: | Pliocene | *Local age/stage: | Late/Upper Blancan |
Key time interval: | Blancan | ||
Age range of interval: | 4.90000 - 1.80000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Local section: | CarsS | Local bed: | 400 | ||
Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: said to be late Blancan |
Lithology and environment
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
Museum repositories: | UCMP |
Metadata
Database number: | 19993 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 1994-04-30 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-06-03 03:27:44 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1994-04-30 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
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] |