Brady Pocket: Clarendonian, Nevada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Leporidae indet.
Fischer de Waldheim 1817
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White 1991 | |||||||||
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= Alilepus hibbardi
White 1991
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
| NISP at least 8 | ||||||||||
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Hypolagus fontinalis
Dawson 1958
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Kelly 1995 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Aplodontidae
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Pseudaplodon occidentale
Macdonald 1956
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3 specimens | |||||||||
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= Tardontia occidentale
Macdonald 1956
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Mylagaulidae
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Mylagaulus sp.
Cope 1878
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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= Mylagaulidae indet.
Cope 1881
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Castoridae
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? Hystricops sp.
(Leidy 1858)
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3 specimens | |||||||||
| original and current combination Hystrix (Hystricops) | ||||||||||
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Eucastor lecontei
(Merriam 1896)
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20 specimens | |||||||||
| recombined as Prodipoides lecontei | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Caninae indet.
Gill 1872
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Osteoborus diabloensis
Richey 1938
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Wang et al. 1999 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
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= Epicyon saevus
Leidy 1858
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Mustelidae
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? Mustelidae indet.
Fischer 1817
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Lutra sp.
Brisson 1762
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Baskin 1998 | 3 specimens | ||||||||
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= Limnonyx sp.
Crusafont Pairo 1950
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Felidae
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Felidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Neohipparion cf. occidentale
(Leidy 1856)
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6 specimens | |||||||||
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= Hippotherium sp.
Kaup 1832
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
| and "N. sp." | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Tapiridae
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Tapiridae indet.
(Gray 1821)
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| original and current combination Taperidae | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Merycoidodontidae
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Ustatochoerus sp.
Schultz and Falkenbach 1941
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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= Merychyus sp.
Leidy 1858
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
| no comparisons to individual species | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Aepycamelus bradyi n. sp.
Macdonald 1956
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| many camelid postcrania were collected, but these are indeterminate (3 measurements) | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Proboscidea
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Proboscidea indet.
Illiger 1811
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Kelly 1995 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Nevada | County: | Churchill |
| Coordinates: | 39.5° North, 118.5° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 40.1° North, 116.1° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
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 | |||
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection size: | 48 specimens |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | LACM |
| Taxonomic list comments:lower part of lower mbr. just below Nightingale Road: Kelly 1995a NISP about 48 | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | LACM 6229; UCMP V-4845 | ||
| Database number: | 18835 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2009-12-20 13:08:20 |
| 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] | |
| 6235 | J. A. Baskin. 1998. Mustelidae. In C. M. Janis, K. M. Scott, and L. L. Jacobs (eds.), Evolution of Tertiary mammals of North America 152-173 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
| 2063 | T. S. Kelly. 1995. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 94(3):213-217 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
| 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] | |
| 3633 | J. A. White. 1991. North American Leporinae (Mammalia: Lagomorpha) from late Miocene (Clarendonian) to latest Pliocene (Blancan). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 11(1):67-89 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |