Also known as Upper Bowerman Landfill
Where: Orange County, California (33.7° N, 117.7° W: paleocoordinates 32.4° N, 109.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Sespe Formation, late Late Arikareean (29.5 - 18.5 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 167851: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 04.04.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Herpetotherium sp. Cope 1873 marsupial | |
Nototamias sp. Pratt and Morgan 1989 squirrel
Miospermophilus sp. Black 1963 squirrel | |
Leidymys nematodon Cope 1879 rodent | |
Schizodontomys sp. Rensberger 1973 rodent |