Diamond Valley Lake East Dam (Pleistocene of the United States)

Also known as 97SK6-27.1, 97CB9-12.7, 98NB1-27.7, 97KMS11-21.2, 96Q4- 25.6B, 96KMS11- 20.2, 97JAS11-25.17

Where: Riverside County, California (33.7° N, 117.0° W: paleocoordinates 33.7° N, 117.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Rancholabrean (0.3 - 0.0 Ma)

• Referred specimen WSC 9622 from Diamond Valley Lake, East Dam (locality number 97SK6-27.1), yielded three calibrated 14C ages from charred organic material, plant fibers, and eggshell that are all greater than 46.5 ka. Referred specimen WSC 8932, also from Diamond Valley Lake, East Dam (locality number 98NB1-27.7), yielded one calibrated age from a Succineidae shell of 37.8 ± 1.8 ka.

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. C. Dooley, E. Scott, J. Green, K. B. Springer, B. S. Booley and G. J. Smith. 2019. Mammut pacificus sp. nov., a newly recognized species of mastodon from the Pleistocene of western North America. PeerJ 7:e6614 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 200314: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 28.03.2019

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Mammut pacificus Dooley et al. 2019 mastodon