Westview Site 6 (SDSNH 3496): Early/Lower Uintan, California

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Apatemyidae
Apatemys cf. bellus Marsh 1872
Mammalia - Sespedectidae
Patriolestes novaceki Walsh 1998
Walsh 1998 7 specimens
may include "Insectivora indet." form "A"
Crypholestes vaughni (Novacek 1976)
Mammalia - Geolabididae
Centetodon sp. Marsh 1872
Mammalia - Rodentia - Ischyromyidae
Microparamys cf. minutus (Wilson 1937)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Eomyidae
Pauromys sp. Troxell 1923
Walsh 1997
    = Metanoiamys sp. Chiment and Korth 1996
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuravidae
Sciuravus powayensis Wilson 1940
Mammalia - Primates - Omomyidae
Omomyidae indet. Gazin 1958
Omomys cf. carteri Leidy 1869
Mammalia - Primates - Microsyopidae
Uintasorex montezumicus Lillegraven 1976
Mammalia
Peradectes sp. Matthew and Granger 1921
Peratherium knighti McGrew et al. 1959
    = Herpetotherium cf. knighti McGrew et al. 1959
Alroy 2002
DUPLICATE REF 3537 or 3538
unclassified
Scenopagus cf. priscus (Marsh 1872)
original and current combination Nyctitherium priscus
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
Stage:Lutetian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 2
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval:Early/Lower Uintan
Age range of interval:46.20000 - 40.40000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Friars Member:Lower Tongue
Local section:SDieg Local bed:2
Local order:bottom to top
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
Metadata
Also known as:Poway, in part
Database number:16716
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:vertebrate
Created:1997-04-12 00:00:00 Last modified:2017-04-15 18:31:14
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]
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]