Also known as UCMP V-5847; Upper Nettle Spring Canyon 3
Where: Ventura County, California (34.3° N, 119.0° W: paleocoordinates 33.7° N, 115.2° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: MR Caliente Formation, Clarendonian (12.5 - 9.4 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Primary reference: G. T. James. 1963. Paleontology and nonmarine stratigraphy of the Cuyama Valley badlands, California; Part 1, Geology, faunal interpretations, and systematic descriptions of Chiroptera, Insectivora, and Rodentia. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 45:1-154 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 19181: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993, edited by Katrin Eckardt
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
"Peromyscus russelli" = Copemys russelli
"Peromyscus russelli" = Copemys russelli James 1963 rodent | |
Protospermophilus quatalensis, "Sciuropterus mathewsi" = Petauristodon mathewsi, Ammospermophilus fossilis
Protospermophilus quatalensis Gazin 1930 squirrel
"Sciuropterus mathewsi" = Petauristodon mathewsi James 1963 squirrel
Ammospermophilus fossilis James 1963 antelope squirrel | |
Perognathus minutus James 1963 pocket mouse
Perognathus furlongi Gazin 1930 pocket mouse | |
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Limnoecus tricuspis Stirton 1930 shrew | |
Lanthanotherium sawini James 1963 hedgehog | |
"Cosoryx cf. cerroensis" = Cosoryx (Subcosoryx) cerroensis1
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? Mustela sp. Linnaeus 1758 weasel | |
"? Phyllostomatidae indet." = Phyllostomidae
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Gomphotherium sp. Burmeister 1837 gomphothere | |
Reptilia | |
Abronia cuyama n. sp.2
Abronia cuyama n. sp.2 Scarpetta and Ledesma 2023 Arboreal alligator lizards Holotype: UCMP 54560 is housed in the UCMP and was collected by Gideon T. James and S. G. SCARPETTA and D. T. LEDESMA a party of UCMP palaeontologists in 1957 or 1958. The specimen consists of a partial cranium including the anterior portion of the skull, an associated block of mudstone matrix containing a few posterior cranial elements and two vials of associated material containing osteoderms in matrix, a probable epipterygoid and unidentified bones.
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