Also known as ETC Windy Ridge; OCPC 2016
Where: Orange County, California (33.8° N, 117.7° W: paleocoordinates 32.5° N, 109.5° W)
When: Sespe Formation, late Late Arikareean (29.5 - 18.5 Ma)
• Lower ETC Windy Ridge l.f.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone
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: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 167827: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 04.04.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Mammalia | |
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Schizodontomys sp. Rensberger 1973 rodent | |
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Nototamias sp. Pratt and Morgan 1989 squirrel | |
"Heterosoricidae indet." = Heterosoricinae
"Heterosoricidae indet." = Heterosoricinae Viret and Zapfe 1951 shrew | |
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? Tanymykter sp. Honey and Taylor 1978 camel | |
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? Merychyus sp. Leidy 1858 oreodont | |