Round Mountain Silt (Miocene of the United States)

Also known as LACM 6069

Where: Kern County, California (35.3° N, 119.3° W: paleocoordinates 34.5° N, 114.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Temblor Formation, Barstovian (16.0 - 13.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; gray lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the LACM

Primary reference: C. Pimiento and M. Balk. 2015. The extinct giant shark Carcharocles megalodon: A model for understanding deep-time body size trends of marine apex predators. [C. Jaramillo/C. Pimiento/C. Pimiento]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 160740: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Catalina Pimiento on 27.08.2014, edited by Jonathan Marcot

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Aphelops megalodus Cope 1873 rhinoceros
LACM 132646
 Perissodactyla - Tapiridae
Miotapirus sp. Schlaikjer 1937 tapir
LACM 131933
Chondrichthyes
 Lamniformes - Otodontidae
"Carcharocles megalodon" = Otodus megalodon
"Carcharocles megalodon" = Otodus megalodon Agassiz 1835 megalodon
LACM 133455