Also known as UCMP V-93128
Where: Madera County, California (37.1° N, 120.2° W: paleocoordinates 37.0° N, 119.8° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: upper Member (Turlock Lake Formation), Irvingtonian (1.8 - 0.3 Ma)
• section is entirely in a normal polarity chron, assumed to be the Brunhes
•material is from several beds within "unit C"
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; sandy claystone and argillaceous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the UCMP
Collection methods: salvage, quarrying,
• "thousands of specimens" uncovered "during excavation of an expansion cell at the Madera County Fairmead Landfill"
Primary reference: R. G. Dundas, R. B. Smith, and K. L. Verosub. 1996. The Fairmead Landfill Locality (Pleistocene, Irvingtonian), Madera County, California: preliminary report and significance. PaleoBios 17(2-4):50-58 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 20327: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 21.09.1999, edited by Mark Uhen, Patricia Holroyd, Jonathan Cathapermal and Jonathan Marcot
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Amphibia | |
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Aves | |
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Anatidae indet. Vigors 1825 waterfowl | |
Reptilia | |
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"Actinemys marmorata" = Emys marmorata2
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"Xerobates agassizi" = Gopherus2
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Mammalia | |
"Glossotherium harlani" = Paramylodon harlani
"Glossotherium harlani" = Paramylodon harlani Owen 1840 Harlan's ground sloth | |
"Nothrotheriops shastensis" = Nothrotherium shastense2
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Mammuthus sp. Brookes 1828 mammoth | |
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Homotherium sp. Fabrini 1890 cat | |
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse | |
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Hemiauchenia sp. Gervais and Ameghino 1880 camel
Camelops sp. Leidy 1854 camel | |
Odocoileus sp. Rafinesque 1832 New World deer | |
Capromeryx sp. Matthew 1902 pronghorn
Tetrameryx irvingtonensis Stirton 1939 pronghorn | |
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Lepus sp. Linnaeus 1758 hare | |
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Thomomys sp. Wied-Neuwied 1839 pocket gopher | |
cf. Dipodomys sp. Gray 1841 kangaroo rat | |
Actinopteri | |
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