Where: San Diego County, California (32.9° N, 117.1° W: paleocoordinates 32.7° N, 116.1° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Huesos/Tapiado Member (Palm Spring Formation), Blancan (4.9 - 1.8 Ma)
• said to be Blancan
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
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 20116: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 21.09.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
"Sigmodon medius" = Sigmodon minor Gidley 1922 cotton rat
Reithrodontomys sp. Giglioli 1874 harvest mouse | |
Geomyidae indet. Bonaparte 1845 pocket gopher
Nerterogeomys anzensis Becker and White 1981 pocket gopher | |
Dipodomys hibbardi Zakrzewski 1981 kangaroo rat
Perognathinae indet. Coues 1875 rodent | |
Sylvilagus sp. Gray 1867 cottontail rabbit
Sylvilagus hibbardi White 1984 cottontail rabbit | |
Lynx rufus Schreber 1777 bobcat
Puma cf. concolor Linnaeus 1771 puma | |
Hemiauchenia sp. Gervais and Ameghino 1880 camel | |