Oakdale: Late/Upper Miocene - Early/Lower Pliocene, California
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Angiospermae
- Malpighiales
- Salicaceae
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Salix coalingensis
Dorf 1930
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| fide Ralph W. Chaney | ||||||||||
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Populus alexanderi
Dorf 1930
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| fide Ralph W. Chaney | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Pliohippus tantalus
(Merriam 1913)
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| original and current combination Protohippus tantalus | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Aphelops sp.
Owen 1845
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| DUPLICATE REF 3493 or 3494 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Camelidae indet.
Gray 1821
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| large DUPLICATE REF 3493 or 3494 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | California | County: | Stanislaus |
| Coordinates: | 37.8° North, 120.8° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 37.7° North, 118.0° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | ||
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| *Period: | Tertiary | *Epoch: | Miocene |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Miocene - Early/Lower Pliocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 11.63000 - 3.60000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Mehrten |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | bentonitic,pebbly poorly lithified 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 |
| Museum repositories: | UCMP |
Metadata
| Also known as: | UCMP V-3212; DUPLICATE REF 3493 or 3494 | ||
| Database number: | 19468 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot | Enterer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot |
| Modifier: | J. Marcot | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2023-10-10 16:28:58 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 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] |
Secondary references:
| 6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
| 2068 | T. S. Kelly. 1998. New Middle Miocene equid crania from California and their implications for the phylogeny of the Equini. Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 473:1-44 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] |