Black Ranch: Blancan, California
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Testudinidae
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Testudo sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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VanderHoof 1933 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Megalonychidae
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Megalonychidae indet.
Gervais 1855
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Gomphotheriidae
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Stegomastodon cf. arizonae
Gidley 1926
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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= Stegomastodon cf. mirificus
Leidy 1858
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Antilocapridae
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Antilocapridae indet.
Gray 1866
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| "?Antilocapra sp." of VanderHoof 1933 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Cervidae
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Odocoileus sp.
Rafinesque 1832
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VanderHoof 1933 | |||||||||
| "Odocoileus? sp. or Cervus? sp."; NISP about 4 DUPLICATE REF 3493 or 3494 | ||||||||||
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Bretzia sp.
Fry and Gustafson 1974
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Gustafson 1985 | |||||||||
| "Tehama"; apparently new LACM and UW specimens | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Camelidae indet.
Gray 1821
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| "Camelops? or Pliauchenia? sp." | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Tayassuidae
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Tayassuidae indet.
Palmer 1897
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| "Prothenops or Platygonus" | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Plesippus proversus
(Merriam 1916)
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55 specimens | |||||||||
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= Equus simplicidens
Cope 1892
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Hyaenognathus cf. pachydon
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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= Borophagus cf. diversidens
Cope 1892
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
| confirmed by Wang et al. 1999 | ||||||||||
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Canis sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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= Canis lepophagus
Johnston 1938
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Nowak 1979 | |||||||||
| replaces ID of VanderHoof 1933 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | California | County: | Tehama |
| Coordinates: | 40.0° North, 122.2° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 40.0° North, 121.2° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| *Period: | Tertiary | *Epoch: | Pliocene |
| Key time interval: | Blancan | ||
| Age range of interval: | 4.7 - 1.4 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection size: | 62 specimens |
| Taxonomic list comments:includes at least three localities from two levels separated stratigraphically by 200 ft Nomlaki Tuff at base of fm. dated at 3.3 (= 3.39) Ma by Evernden et al. 1964 NISP about 62 | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Tehama | ||
| Database number: | 19668 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot | Enterer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-06-03 03:27:44 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 3007. | R. D. Russell and V. L. VanderHoof. 1931. A Vertebrate Fauna From a New Pliocene Formation in Northern California. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences 20(2):11-21 [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] | |
| 1756 | E. P. Gustafson. 1985. Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences 13 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
| 2673 | R. M. Nowak. 1979. North American Quaternary Canis. Monograph of the Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas 6:1-154 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
| 3493 | V. L. VanderHoof. 1933. A Skull of Pliohippus tantalus From the Later Tertiary of the Sierran Foothills of California. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences 23:183-194 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] | |
| 3494 | V. L. VanderHoof. 1933. Additions to the fauna of the Tehama upper Pliocene of northern California. American Journal of Science 25:382-384 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] |