Mission del Oro (Upper): Uintan, California

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
Peradectes californicus (Stock 1936)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla
? Rhinocerotoidea indet. Gray 1821
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
cf. Duchesneodus sp. Lucas and Schoch 1982
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Epihippus sp. Marsh 1878
Mammalia - Oromerycidae
Protylopus cf. robustus Golz 1976
Mammalia - Agriochoeridae
Protoreodon sp. Scott and Osborn 1887
    = Protoreodon walshi Theodor 1999
Theodor 1999
Mammalia - Sespedectidae
Sespedectes sp. Stock 1935
Proterixoides davisi Stock 1935
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cylindrodontidae
Pareumys sp. Peterson 1919
Mammalia - Rodentia - Simimyidae
Simimys simplex (Wilson 1935)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Ischyromyidae
Leptotomus burkei Wilson 1940
    = cf. Mytonomys burkei Wilson 1940
Alroy 2002
Eohaplomys cf. serus Stock 1935
Microparamys sp. Wood 1959
Mammalia - Rodentia
Griphomys sp. Wilson 1940
Mammalia - Rodentia - Eomyidae
Namatomys sp. Black 1965
    = Metanoiamys sp. Chiment and Korth 1996
Alroy 2002
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:California County:San Diego
Coordinates: 32.9° North, 117.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.1° North, 103.9° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 2-3
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval:Uintan
Age range of interval:46.20000 - 39.70000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Santiago Member:C
Local section:Sntgo Local bed:2
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Taxonomic list comments:Walsh 1991 gives separate lists for SDSNH 3572 and 3574, but they include only Simimys simplex and an indeterminate ischyromyoid
Metadata
Also known as:SDSNH 3570, 3572, 3574
Database number:16603
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1997-04-12 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:41
Access level:the public Released:1997-04-12 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

3540. S. L. Walsh. 1996. Middle Eocene mammal faunas of San Diego County, California. In D. R. Prothero, R. J. Emry (eds.), The Terrestrial Eocene-Oligocene Transition in North America 74-119 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Mannion]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
3400 J. M. Theodor. 1999. Protoreodon walshi, a new species of agriochoerid (Oreodonta, Artiodactyla, Mammalia) from the late Uintan of San Diego County, California. Journal of Paleontology 73(6):1179-1190 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]