Black's Beach (UCMP V-6874) (Eocene of the United States)

Where: San Diego County, California (32.9° N, 117.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.6° N, 103.2° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Scripps Formation (La Jolla Group), Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; conglomeratic sandstone

• conglomeratic sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: J. H. Hutchison. 1971. Cf. Uintatherium (Mammalia: Dinocerata) from the Uintan (Middle to Late Eocene) of Southern California. PaleoBios 12:1-8 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 16662: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002, edited by Patricia Holroyd

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Taxonomic list

• Bridgerian or early Uintan
Reptilia
 Crocodylia - Crocodylidae
Mammalia
 Dinocerata - Uintatheriidae
cf. Uintatherium sp. Leidy 1872 uintathere