McKnight Ranch: Barstovian - Clarendonian, Nevada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
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Carnivora indet.
Bowdich 1821
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Merychippus isonesus
(Cope 1889)
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= Equinae indet.
Steinmann and Döderlein 1890
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
| fairly hypsodont m1 that could be hipparionine or equine; JA pers. obs. 14.12.94 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Camelidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Mammalia
- Antilocapridae
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Merycodus sp.
Leidy 1854
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= Merycodontinae indet.
Matthew 1904
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Nevada | County: | Elko |
| Coordinates: | 41.0° North, 115.5° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 41.6° North, 112.8° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| *Period: | Tertiary | ||
| Key time interval: | Barstovian - Clarendonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 16.30000 - 9.40000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:material reported by King 1878 from "Bone Valley" may be from this or another locality according to Merriam; King's material includes equids and a merycodont but his names are unreliable see also Stirton 1940 | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 18971 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | J. Marcot | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2002-05-15 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2023-10-19 15:30:16 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-05-15 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 2561. | J. C. Merriam. 1914. The Occurrence of Tertiary Mammalian Remains in Northeastern Nevada. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geology 8(12):275-281 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] |
Secondary references:
| 6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] |