Also known as LACM 6927, LACM 6928, LACM 6929, LACM 6930
Where: Orange County, California (33.8° N, 117.8° W: paleocoordinates 32.5° N, 109.6° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Sespe Formation, late Late Arikareean (29.5 - 18.5 Ma)
• No stratigraphic section was measured, but redbeds of the ‘‘Sespe’’ lithofacies and green marine sandstone beds of the ‘‘Vaqueros’’ lithofacies are present.
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: D. P. Whistler and E. B. Lander. 2003. New Late Uintan to Early Hemingfordian Land Mammal Assemblages from the Undifferentiated Sespe and Vaqueros Formations, Orange County, and from the Sespe and Equivalent Marine Formations in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and Ventura Counties, Southern California. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 279:231-268 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 167826: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 04.04.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Mustelidae indet. Fischer 1817 mustelid carnivore | |
Tanymykter ? sp. Honey and Taylor 1978 camel
Michenia agatensis Frick and Taylor 1971 camel | |
? Merychyus sp. Leidy 1858 oreodont | |
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