Pearson Ranch (CIT 146) (Eocene of the United States)

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

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Taxonomic list

• records of Golz and Lillegraven 1977 omitted by Kelly: Ischyromyidae indet. Creodonta indet. Protoreodon pacificus
Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Amynodontidae
Amynodontopsis bodei Stock 1933 odd-toed ungulate
 Artiodactyla - Protoceratidae
Leptoreodon stocki Kelly 1990 protoceratid
 Artiodactyla - Praetragulidae
Simimeryx hudsoni Stock 1934 ruminant
 Artiodactyla - Oromerycidae
Protylopus pearsonensis Golz 1976 even-toed ungulate
 Theriamorpha - Sespedectidae
Sespedectes singularis Stock 1935 placental
 Primates - Omomyidae
Chumashius balchi Stock 1933 tarsier
Reptilia
 Testudines - Testudinidae
Testudinidae indet. Batsch 1788 turtle
 Testudines -
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines Batsch 1788 turtle