Where: Ventura County, California (34.3° N, 119.0° W: paleocoordinates 33.7° N, 107.3° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Bed SS16 Member (Sespe Formation), Duchesnean (39.7 - 37.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Primary reference: T. S. Kelly. 1990. Biostratigraphy of Uintan and Duchesnean land mammal assemblages from the Middle Member of the Sespe Formation, Simi Valley, California. Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 419:1-42 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 16805: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993, edited by Patricia Holroyd
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Amynodontopsis bodei Stock 1933 odd-toed ungulate | |
Leptoreodon stocki Kelly 1990 protoceratid | |
Simimeryx hudsoni Stock 1934 ruminant | |
Protylopus pearsonensis Golz 1976 even-toed ungulate | |
Sespedectes singularis Stock 1935 placental | |
Chumashius balchi Stock 1933 tarsier | |
Reptilia | |
Testudinidae indet. Batsch 1788 turtle | |
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines Batsch 1788 turtle |