UCMP 1082a, Bald Peak Site 1: Miocene, California
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Tayassuidae
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Tayassuinae indet.
Palmer 1897
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| "Prosthennops" | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Castoridae
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Eucastor lecontei n. sp.
(Merriam 1896)
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| recombined as Prodipoides lecontei | ||||||||||
| see Stirton 1935; mentioned also by Creely et al. 1982 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Leporidae indet.
Fischer de Waldheim 1817
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| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | California | County: | Contra Costa |
| Coordinates: | 37.9° North, 122.2° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 37.1° North, 117.9° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5-6 | ||
| *Period: | Tertiary | ||
| Key time interval: | Miocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 23.03000 - 5.33300 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
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 |
| Museum repositories: | UCMP |
Metadata
| Database number: | 19146 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2017-04-16 19:30:41 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 3233. | R. A. Stirton. 1939. Cenozoic Mammal Remains From the San Francisco Bay Region. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences 24(13):339-410 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] |