Glendale

Glendale

NV: Clark Co.: CA. 2 KM SW GLENDALE. 555 m

General Description.—Kurtén and Anderson 1980: About 70 km NE Las Vegas. "A sequence of beaver dams, probably representing a former beaver meadow..." Eleven species of water birds. Van Devender and Tessman (1975) also note that this is ca. 2 km SW Glendale.

Age.—Van Devender and Tessman 1975: Radiocarbon date on charcoal from ca. 40 cm below the turtle fossils was >33,000 BP. This, with the species of mammals identified, said to support a "late Pleistocene or Rancholabrean age..."

Environment.—Van Devender and Tessman 1975: Near top of a ca. 30-m section of gypsiferous claystones and siltstones. Site is near the present confluence of the drainage basins of the Muddy River, Meadow Valley Wash, and California Wash.

Paleoenvironment.—Van Devender and Tessman 1975: Sediments indicate water level fluctuated greatly during deposition. Aquatic plant fossils, including horsetail and tule, suggest shallow, semi-permanent water. All sediments and fossil indicate a moist, pluvial climate rather than a dry interstadial or interglacial.

Comments.—Collected in 1938.

Publications.—Harris 1985; Kurtén and Anderson 1980; (*Van Devender and Tessman 1975).

Fauna.—

• Castor canadensis K∓A 1980; Van Devender ∓ Tessman 1975
• Thomomys Van Devender ∓ Tessman 1975
• Perognathus longimembris K∓a 1980
• Neotoma lepida K∓A 1980
• Ondatra zibethicus K∓A 1980; Van Devender ∓ Tessman 1975
• Microtus montanus or californicus K∓A 1980
• Mammuthus sp. Van Devender ∓ Tessman 1975
• Equus sp.
• Camel sp.
• Odocoileus sp.

Last Update: 7 September 1998.