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 16676: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993, edited by Patricia Holroyd
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Crocodylidae indet. crocodile | |
Mammalia | |
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Sciuravus powayensis Wilson 1940 rodent | |
Pareumys grangeri Burke 1935 rodent | |
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Protoreodon cf. parvus Scott and Osborn 1887 agriochoerid | |
Leptoreodon cf. marshi Wortman 1898 protoceratid
Leptoreodon major Golz 1976 protoceratid | |
Merycobunodon littoralis Golz 1976 even-toed ungulate | |
Brontotheriidae indet. Marsh 1873 brontothere |