Where: San Diego County, California (33.2° N, 117.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.4° N, 104.1° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Santiago Formation, Uintan (46.2 - 40.4 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: D. J. Golz and J. A. Lillegraven. 1977. Summary of known occurrences of terrestrial vertebrates from Eocene strata of southern California. Contributions to Geology, University of Wyoming 15(1):43-65 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 16591: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Brontotheriidae indet. Marsh 1873 brontothere | |
Amynodontidae indet. Scott and Osborn 1883 odd-toed ungulate | |
Protylopus cf. petersoni Wortman 1898 even-toed ungulate
Protylopus stocki Golz 1976 even-toed ungulate | |
Protoreodon pumilus Marsh 1875 agriochoerid | |
? Carnivora indet. Bowdich 1821 carnivoran |