Ray Kubulis Locality: Early/Lower Uintan, California

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Primates - Microsyopidae
Uintasorex montezumicus Lillegraven 1976
Mammalia - Rodentia - Eomyidae
Metanoiamys agorus Chiment and Korth 1996
Chiment and Korth 1996
Mammalia - Geolabididae
Centetodon aztecus Lillegraven et al. 1981
confirmed by Lillegraven et al. 1981
Mammalia
Peratherium knighti McGrew et al. 1959
    = Herpetotherium cf. knighti McGrew et al. 1959
Alroy 2002
Reptilia - Xantusiidae
Palaeoxantusia allisoni Schatzinger 1980
Reptilia - Anguidae
Glyptosaurinae indet. Marsh 1872
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:Early/Lower Uintan
Age range of interval:46.20000 - 39.70000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Friars Member:Upper Tongue
Local section:SDieg Local bed:3
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Museum repositories:UCMP
Taxonomic list comments:assigned to the Mission Valley Fm. by Golz and Lillegraven, "Cypress Canyon Unit" by Walsh 1991, and upper Friars by Walsh 1996b
Metadata
Also known as:UCMP V-73139
Database number:16711
Authorizer:J. Alroy, P. Holroyd Enterer:J. Alroy, P. Holroyd
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:1994-04-30 00:00:00 Last modified:2008-01-27 15:55:20
Access level:the public Released:1994-04-30 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

1681. D. J. Golz and J. A. Lillegraven. 1977. Summary of known occurrences of terrestrial vertebrates from Eocene strata of southern California. Contributions to Geology, University of Wyoming 15(1):43-65 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
1195 J. J. Chiment and W. W. Korth. 1996. A New Genus of Eomyid Rodent (Mammalia) from the Eocene (Uintan-Duchesnean) of Southern California. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 16(1):116-124 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]