Also known as Upper Bowerman Landfill; LACM 6936; LACM 6937; LACM 6939; LACM 6942; LACM 6944; LACM 6945
Where: Orange County, California (33.7° N, 117.7° W: paleocoordinates 32.4° N, 109.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Sespe Formation, late Late Arikareean (29.5 - 18.5 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 167848: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 04.04.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
cf. Leptocyon sp. Matthew 1918 canine | |
? Pseudoblastomeryx advena Matthew 1907 musk deer
? Machaeromeryx tragulus Matthew 1926 musk deer | |
"Heterosoricidae indet." = Heterosoricinae
"Heterosoricidae indet." = Heterosoricinae Viret and Zapfe 1951 shrew | |
? Gripholagomys sp. Green 1972 pika | |
Leidymys nematodon Cope 1879 mouse | |
Schizodontomys sp. Rensberger 1973 rodent | |
Herpetotherium sp. Cope 1873 marsupial |