West Friars Road One (UCMP V-6889) (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 - 40.4 Ma)

• undifferentiated

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the UCMP

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 16675: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993, edited by Patricia Holroyd

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Taxonomic list

• map of Walsh et al. 1996 indicates that West Friars Road is near their MS-5 and MS-11, which show the Friars Fm. to be undifferentiated
Reptilia
 Crocodylia - Crocodylidae
Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
? Metarhinus pater Stock 1937 brontothere
 Artiodactyla - Protoceratidae
 Artiodactyla - Agriochoeridae
Protoreodon cf. parvus Scott and Osborn 1887 agriochoerid
 Rodentia - Sciuravidae
Sciuravus powayensis Wilson 1940 rodent