Azuaga II Site 5 (SDSNH 3413): Early/Lower Uintan, California

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Primates - Notharctidae
Hesperolemur actius n. gen., n. sp. Gunnell 1995
Gunnell 1995
(4 measurements)
    = Cantius actius Gunnell 1995
Alroy 2002
presumably includes "Smilodectes cf. mcgrewi"
Mammalia - Primates - Microsyopidae
Uintasorex montezumicus Lillegraven 1976
Mammalia - Primates - Omomyidae
Omomys cf. carteri Leidy 1869
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cylindrodontidae
? Pareumys sp. Peterson 1919
Mammalia - Rodentia - Eomyidae
Pauromys sp. Troxell 1923
Walsh 1997
    = Metanoiamys sp. Chiment and Korth 1996
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Rodentia - Ischyromyidae
Microparamys cf. minutus (Wilson 1937)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla
Hesperaletes walshi Colbert 2006
Colbert 2006
Mammalia - Geolabididae
Centetodon sp. Marsh 1872
Mammalia - Sespedectidae
Crypholestes vaughni (Novacek 1976)
Mammalia
Peradectes sp. Matthew and Granger 1921
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
Taxonomic list comments:originally misassigned to the "Cypress Canyon Unit"; see Walsh 1996b
Metadata
Also known as:Poway, in part
Database number:16750
Authorizer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot Enterer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:1997-04-12 00:00:00 Last modified:2008-01-27 15:55:20
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]
54688 M. W. Colbert. 2006. Hesperaletes (Mammalia : Perissodactyla), a new tapiroid from the middle Eocene of southern California. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26(3):697-711 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]
1733 G. F. Gunnell. 1995. New notharctine (primates, adapiformes) skull from the Uintan (middle Eocene) of San Diego County, California. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 98:447-470 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
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]