Fish Spring Flat (UCMP V-93043): Blancan, Nevada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus giganteus Gidley 1901
Mammalia - Camelidae
Gigantocamelus spatulus (Cope 1893)
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]