Where: San Diego County, California (32.9° N, 117.1° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Huesos/Tapiado Member (Palm Spring Formation), Irvingtonian (1.4 - 0.2 Ma)
• said to be Irvingtonian
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: M. L. Cassiliano. 1999. Biostratigraphy of Blancan and Irvingtonian mammals in the Fish Creek-Vallecito Creek section, southern California, and a review of the Blancan-Irvingtonian boundary. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 19(1):169-186 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 20125: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 21.09.1999, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
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Sylvilagus sp. Gray 1867 cottontail rabbit
Sylvilagus floridanus Allen 1890 eastern cottontail
Sylvilagus hibbardi White 1984 cottontail rabbit | |
Reithrodontomys sp., Hodomys sp., Mictomys vetus1, Peromyscus sp., "Calomys (Bensonomys) sp." = Bensonomys, Sigmodon sp., Sigmodon lindsayi, Arvicolinae indet.2, Onychomys sp., Baiomys sp.
Reithrodontomys sp. Giglioli 1874 harvest mouse
Peromyscus sp. Gloger 1841 deer mouse
Sigmodon sp. Say and Ord 1825 cotton rat
Arvicolinae indet.2 Gray 1821 vole CU 57.8: described by Zakrzewski 1972; present at LACM 1942, 6683, 6814
Onychomys sp. Baird 1858 grasshopper mouse
Baiomys sp. True 1894 pygmy mouse | |
Dipodomys compactus True 1889 Gulf Coast kangaroo rat | |
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Spermophilus sp. Cuvier 1825 ground squirrel | |
Scapanus sp. Pomel 1848 mole
Scapanus malatinus Hutchison 1987 mole | |
Notiosorex jacksoni Hibbard 1950 gray shrew | |
Tremarctos sp. Gervais 1855 bear | |
Capromeryx sp. Matthew 1902 pronghorn | |
Odocoileus sp. Rafinesque 1832 New World deer | |
Titanotylopus sp. Barbour and Schultz 1934 camel
Camelops sp. Leidy 1854 camel
Hemiauchenia sp. Gervais and Ameghino 1880 camel | |
"Equus (Equus) sp." = Equus, "Equus (Dolichohippus) sp." = Equus, "Equus simplicidens" = Plesippus simplicidens
"Equus (Equus) sp." = Equus Linnaeus 1758 horse
"Equus (Dolichohippus) sp." = Equus Linnaeus 1758 horse
"Equus simplicidens" = Plesippus simplicidens Cope 1892 horse | |
Megalonyx sp. Harlan 1825 edentate |