Also known as Santiago Canyon Landfill; LC 165; LC 166; LC 167; LC 168
Where: Orange County, California (33.8° N, 117.7° W: paleocoordinates 32.9° N, 112.1° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Vaqueros Formation, Early/Lower Hemingfordian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: D. P. Whistler and E. B. Lander. 2003. New Late Uintan to Early Hemingfordian Land Mammal Assemblages from the Undifferentiated Sespe and Vaqueros Formations, Orange County, and from the Sespe and Equivalent Marine Formations in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and Ventura Counties, Southern California. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 279:231-268 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 167841: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 04.04.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Herpetotherium sp. Cope 1873 marsupial | |
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Metatomarctus canavus Simpson 1932 bone-crushing dog
Desmocyon thomsoni Matthew 1907 bone-crushing dog
Phlaocyon sp. Matthew 1899 bone-crushing dog | |
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Michenia agatensis Frick and Taylor 1971 camel
? Tanymykter sp. Honey and Taylor 1978 camel | |
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Merychyus elegans Leidy 1858 oreodont | |
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? Pseudoblastomeryx advena Matthew 1907 musk deer | |
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Menoceras barbouri Wood 1964 rhinoceros | |
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Parahippus pawniensis Gidley 1907 anchitheriine horse | |
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Erinaceidae indet. Fischer von Waldheim 1817 hedgehog | |
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Cuyamalagus dawsoni Hutchison and Lindsay 1974 pika | |
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Miospermophilus sp. Black 1963 squirrel
? Petauristodon sp. Engesser 1979 squirrel
Nototamias sp. Pratt and Morgan 1989 squirrel | |
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Yatkolamys sp. Martin and Corner 1980 mouse | |