Parkridge ( of the United States)

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
 Carnivora - Mustelidae
Mustelidae indet. Fischer 1817 mustelid carnivore
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Tanymykter ? sp. Honey and Taylor 1978 camel
Michenia agatensis Frick and Taylor 1971 camel
 Artiodactyla - Merycoidodontidae
? Merychyus sp. Leidy 1858 oreodont
 Artiodactyla - Tayassuidae
Tayassuidae indet. Palmer 1897 peccary
"? Cynorca sp."