USGS vert. loc. M 1028, Caliente Range (Miocene of the United States)

Where: San Luis Obispo County, California (35.1° N, 119.8° W: paleocoordinates 34.4° N, 115.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Painted Sandstone Member (Vaqueros Formation), Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. Shikama. 1966. Postcranial skeletons of Japanese Desmostylia. Palaeontological Society of Japan Special Papers 12:1-202 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 91486: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 29.09.2009, edited by Jonathan Marcot

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Desmostylidae
Desmostylus hesperus Marsh 1888 desmostylian