Rancho del Oro Village III Site 10 (SDSNH 3440): Late/Upper Uintan - Duchesnean, California

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
Peradectes sp. Matthew and Granger 1921
Peratherium knighti McGrew et al. 1959
Walsh 1996
    = Herpetotherium cf. knighti McGrew et al. 1959
Alroy 2002
"Peratherium sp."
Mammalia - Geolabididae
Batodonoides powayensis Novacek 1976
Mammalia - Sespedectidae
Crypholestes vaughni (Novacek 1976)
Dormaaliidae indet. Quinet 1964
Walsh 1998 4 specimens
    = Patriolestes novaceki Walsh 1998
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Rodentia - Ischyromyidae
Microparamys cf. minutus (Wilson 1937)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Eomyidae
Namatomys sp. Black 1965
Walsh 1997
    = Metanoiamys agorus Chiment and Korth 1996
Alroy 2002
replaces ID of Walsh 1996b; "cf. Pauromys
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuravidae
Sciuravus powayensis Wilson 1940
Mammalia - Primates - Microsyopidae
Uintasorex sp. Matthew 1909
Walsh 1996
    = Uintasorex montezumicus Lillegraven 1976
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Primates - Omomyidae
Washakius sp. Leidy 1873
Walsh 1996
    = Washakius woodringi Stock 1938
Alroy 2002
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:California County:San Diego
Coordinates: 33.2° North, 117.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.2° North, 104.5° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
*Period:Early/Lower Tertiary *Epoch:Late/Upper Eocene
*Local age/stage:Late/Upper Uintan - Early/Lower Duchesnean
Key time interval:Late/Upper Uintan - Duchesnean
Age range of interval:46.20000 - 37.00000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Santiago Member:B
Local section:Sntgo Local bed:1
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: reversed polarity: Prothero 2001
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "siliciclastic"
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Taxonomic list comments:"? Metarhinus pater" is listed by Walsh 1996b, specific site not given
Metadata
Also known as:Mesa Drive, in part
Database number:16616
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:vertebrate
Created:1997-04-12 00:00:00 Last modified:2017-04-15 18:10:30
Access level:the public Released:1997-04-12 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
3538. S. L. Walsh. 1991. Eocene mammal faunas of San Diego County. Pacific Section SEPM 68:161-178 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
7758 D. R. Prothero. 2001. Magnetic stratigraphy of the middle Eocene Santiago Formation, San Diego and Orange counties, California. Magnetic Stratigraphy of the Pacific Coast Cenozoic (D. R. Prothero, ed.) 107-118 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
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]
3541 S. L. Walsh. 1997. New specimens of Metanoiamys, Pauromys, and Simimys (Rodentia: Myomorpha) from the Uintan (middle Eocene) of San Diego County, California, and comments on the relationships of selected Paleogene Myomorpha. Proceedings of the San Diego Society of Natural History 32:1-20 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
3542 S. L. Walsh. 1998. Notes on the anterior dentition and skull of Proterixoides (Mammalia: Insectivora: Dormaaliidae), and a new dormaaliid genus from the early Uintan (Middle Eocene) of southern California. Proceedings of the San Diego Society of Natural History 34:1-26 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]