Also known as SDSNH 3488; Unocal Cut Slope
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
Reposited in the UCMP
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 16674: 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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Crocodylidae indet. crocodile | |
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Tinosaurus cf. stenodon Marsh 1872 squamates | |
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? Metarhinus pater Stock 1937 brontothere | |
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Leptoreodon major Golz 1976 protoceratid | |
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Centetodon aztecus2 Lillegraven et al. 1981 placental [ according to Novacek 1976, who lists "C. sp."
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Microparamys cf. minutus Wilson 1937 rodent | |
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Uintasorex montezumicus Lillegraven 1976 primate | |
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