Where: San Diego County, California (32.9° N, 117.1° W: paleocoordinates 33.1° N, 103.9° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Friars Formation (La Jolla Group), Early/Lower Uintan (46.2 - 39.7 Ma)
• undifferentiated
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 16666: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993, edited by Patricia Holroyd
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Crocodylia indet. crocodilian | |
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Washakius woodringi n. sp. Stock 1938 tarsier from "CIT 249": see Stock 1938a; (two further specimens actually are O. powayensis, see Gazin 1958a)
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Pareumys grangeri Burke 1935 rodent possibly the material from "CIT 249" ( described by Wilson 1940c
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"Ischyrotomus californicus" = Pseudotomus californicus, Leptotomus caryophilus, Microparamys cf. minutus1
"Ischyrotomus californicus" = Pseudotomus californicus Wilson 1940 rodent presumably the type of Wilson 1940a ( from "CIT 249"
Microparamys cf. minutus1 Wilson 1937 rodent (?); not clear why this record is omitted by Golz and Lillegraven 1977
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? Metarhinus pater Stock 1937 brontothere | |
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Leptoreodon cf. marshi Wortman 1898 protoceratid | |
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? Oromerycidae indet. Gazin 1955 even-toed ungulate | |
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Anura indet. frog | |