Tecolote Canyon (LACM 3243) (Eocene of the United States)

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)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the LACM

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 16670: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993

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Taxonomic list

• same as CIT 314-30'
at the base of the Genessee Avenue section of Walsh et al. 1996, and said by them to be possibly Scripps Fm. instead of Friars Fm.
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Mammalia
 Acreodi - Mesonychidae
cf. Harpagolestes sp.
cf. Harpagolestes sp. Wortman 1901 condylarth
 Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
? Metarhinus cf. pater1
? Metarhinus cf. pater1 Stock 1937 brontothere
 Rodentia - Ischyromyidae
"Ischyrotomus littoralis n. sp." = Pseudotomus littoralis2
"Ischyrotomus littoralis n. sp." = Pseudotomus littoralis2 Wilson 1949 rodent
from "Thirty feet stratigraphically below" CIT 314
1Walsh et al. 1996; 2Wilson 1949