Buckeye Creek (UCMP V-93064): Blancan, Nevada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus simplicidens Cope 1892
recombined as Plesippus simplicidens
Mammalia - Camelidae
Hemiauchenia cf. blancoensis (Meade 1945)
1 specimen
    = Hemiauchenia cf. macrocephala Cope 1893
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Cervidae
Odocoileus sp. Rafinesque 1832
1 specimen
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Proboscidea
Proboscidea indet. Illiger 1811
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:Middle Blancan
Key time interval:Blancan
Age range of interval:4.90000 - 1.80000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Local section:CarsN Local bed:190
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphy comments: said to be middle Blancan
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Museum repositories:UCMP
Metadata
Database number:20006
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]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]