LC 164: Early/Lower Hemingfordian, California
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
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Herpetotherium sp.
Cope 1873
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Parahippus pawniensis
Gidley 1907
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Menoceras barbouri
(Wood 1964)
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Mammalia
- Moschidae
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? Pseudoblastomeryx advena
(Matthew 1907)
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Michenia agatensis
Frick and Taylor 1971
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? Tanymykter sp.
Honey and Taylor 1978
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Mammalia
- Merycoidodontidae
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Merychyus elegans
Leidy 1858
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Metatomarctus canavus
(Simpson 1932)
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Desmocyon thomsoni
(Matthew 1907)
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Phlaocyon sp.
Matthew 1899
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Mammalia
- Erinaceidae
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Erinaceidae indet.
Fischer von Waldheim 1817
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Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Ochotonidae
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Cuyamalagus dawsoni
Hutchison and Lindsay 1974
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Sciuridae
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Miospermophilus sp.
Black 1963
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Nototamias sp.
Pratt and Morgan 1989
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? Petauristodon sp.
Engesser 1979
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Yatkolamys sp.
Martin and Corner 1980
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Leidymys sp.
Wood 1936
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | California | County: | Orange |
| Coordinates: | 33.8° North, 117.7° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 32.9° North, 112.1° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
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: | Vaqueros |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
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: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Santiago Canyon Landfill; LC 165; LC 166; LC 167; LC 168 | ||
| Database number: | 167841 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Marcot | Enterer: | J. Marcot | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2015-04-04 16:06:30 | Last modified: | 2015-04-04 16:06:30 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2015-04-04 16:06:30 |
| 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] |