Carizzo Plains School (Pleistocene of the United States)

Also known as CPVP 7803, LACM 5659

Where: San Luis Obispo County, California (35.3° N, 120.2° W: paleocoordinates 35.3° N, 119.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• late Pleistocene

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Reposited in the LACM

Primary reference: G. T. Jefferson, H. L. Fierstine, J. R. Wesling and T.-L. Ku. 1992. Pleistocene terrestrial vertebrates from near Point San Luis, and other localities in San Luis Obispo County, California. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 91(1):26-38 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 65994: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 26.09.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Camelops sp. Leidy 1854 camel
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Bison latifrons Harlan 1825 bison
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus sp. Brookes 1828 mammoth
 Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Mammut pacificus Dooley et al. 2019 mastodon