LC 151 (Miocene of the United States)

Also known as Santiago Canyon Landfill; LC 162; LC 163; LC 194

Where: Orange County, California (33.8° N, 117.7° W: paleocoordinates 32.9° N, 112.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Vaqueros Formation, Early/Lower Hemingfordian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• 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: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 167840: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 04.04.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
"? Kalobatippus clarencei" = Anchitherium clarencei
"? Kalobatippus clarencei" = Anchitherium clarencei Simpson 1932 anchitheriine horse
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Menoceras barbouri Wood 1964 rhinoceros
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
? Tanymykter sp. Honey and Taylor 1978 camel
Michenia agatensis Frick and Taylor 1971 camel
 Artiodactyla - Merycoidodontidae
Merychyus elegans Leidy 1858 oreodont
 Artiodactyla - Moschidae
? Pseudoblastomeryx advena Matthew 1907 musk deer
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
Miospermophilus sp. Black 1963 squirrel
Nototamias sp. Pratt and Morgan 1989 squirrel
 Rodentia - Heteromyidae
Cupidinimus cf. lindsayi Barnosky 1986 rodent
Cupidinimus near C. lindsayi
 Rodentia - Eomyidae
Pseudotheridomys sp. Schlosser 1926 rodent
(large)
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Leidymys sp. Wood 1936 mouse
(small)
Yatkolamys sp. Martin and Corner 1980 mouse
 Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
Cuyamalagus dawsoni Hutchison and Lindsay 1974 pika
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Archaeolagus sp. Dice 1917 rabbit
 Theriamorpha - Herpetotheriidae
Herpetotherium sp. Cope 1873 marsupial