Murphy Canyon (CIT 250) (Eocene of the United States)

Where: San Diego County, California (32.9° N, 117.1° W: paleocoordinates 33.1° N, 103.9° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Friars Formation (La Jolla Group), Early/Lower Uintan (46.2 - 39.7 Ma)

• undifferentiated

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. J. Golz and J. A. Lillegraven. 1977. Summary of known occurrences of terrestrial vertebrates from Eocene strata of southern California. Contributions to Geology, University of Wyoming 15(1):43-65 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 16668: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 30.04.1994, edited by Patricia Holroyd

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Taxonomic list

• stratigraphic position based on that of new Murphy Canyon localities of Walsh 1996b
Reptilia
 Testudines - Testudinidae
Testudinidae indet. Batsch 1788 turtle
Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Protoceratidae
cf. Leptoreodon sp. Wortman 1898 protoceratid
 Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
Brontotheriidae indet. Marsh 1873 brontothere