Also known as Mesa Drive, in part
Where: San Diego County, California (33.2° N, 117.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.2° N, 104.5° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: B Member (Santiago Formation), Late/Upper Uintan to Late/Upper Uintan (46.2 - 37.0 Ma)
• reversed polarity: Prothero 2001
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: S. L. Walsh. 1991. Eocene mammal faunas of San Diego County. Pacific Section SEPM 68:161-178 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 16616: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 12.04.1997
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Mammalia | |
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Herpetotherium cf. knighti McGrew et al. 1959 marsupial | |
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Peradectes sp. Matthew and Granger 1921 marsupial | |
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Patriolestes novaceki Walsh 1998 placental
Crypholestes vaughni Novacek 1976 placental | |
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Batodonoides powayensis Novacek 1976 placental | |
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Sciuravus powayensis Wilson 1940 rodent | |
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Microparamys cf. minutus Wilson 1937 rodent | |
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Metanoiamys agorus Chiment and Korth 1996 rodent | |
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Washakius woodringi Stock 1938 tarsier | |
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Uintasorex montezumicus Lillegraven 1976 primate | |