Cooper Center 02019: Early/Lower Hemingfordian, California

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Carnivora - Amphicyonidae
Cynelos sp. Jourdan 1862
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Phlaocyon sp. Matthew 1899
Cynarctoides gawnae Wang et al. 1999
    = Cynarctoides whistleri n. sp. Wang and Tedford 2008
Wang and Tedford 2008
OCPC 21796
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
Cuyamalagus dawsoni Hutchison and Lindsay 1974
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Yatkolamys sp. Martin and Corner 1980
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Miospermophilus sp. Black 1963
Nototamias sp. Pratt and Morgan 1989
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:California County:Orange
Coordinates: 33.8° North, 117.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.0° North, 112.1° West
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Burdigalian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Early/Lower Hemingfordian
Age range of interval:18.50000 - 16.30000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Sespe
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Upper ETC Windy Ridge l.f.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:ETC Windy Ridge; OCPC 2019; Cooper Center 02040; OCPC 2040
Database number:167830
Authorizer:J. Marcot Enterer:J. Marcot
Modifier:J. Marcot Research group:vertebrate
Created:2015-04-04 12:02:38 Last modified:2015-04-04 12:06:01
Access level:the public Released:2015-04-04 12:02:38
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

54866. D. P. Whistler and E. B. Lander. 2003. New Late Uintan to Early Hemingfordian Land Mammal Assemblages from the Undifferentiated Sespe and Vaqueros Formations, Orange County, and from the Sespe and Equivalent Marine Formations in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and Ventura Counties, Southern California. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 279:231-268 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]

Secondary references:

56906 X. Wang and R. H. Tedford. 2008. Fossil dogs (Carnivora, Canidae) from the Sespe and Vaqueros formations in Southern California, with comments on relationships of Phlaocyon taylori. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Science Series 41:255-272 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot/J. Marcot]