Brea Canyon (Bed SS4) (Eocene of the United States)

Also known as LACM 5618, 5627, 5628

Where: Ventura County, California (34.3° N, 119.0° W: paleocoordinates 34.5° N, 105.8° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Sespe Formation, Uintan (46.2 - 40.4 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Reposited in the LACM

Primary reference: T. S. Kelly. 1990. Biostratigraphy of Uintan and Duchesnean land mammal assemblages from the Middle Member of the Sespe Formation, Simi Valley, California. Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 419:1-42 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 16792: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Rodentia - Ischyromyidae
Mytonomys burkei Wilson 1940 rodent
 Perissodactyla - Amynodontidae
Amynodon cf. advenus Marsh 1875 odd-toed ungulate
 Artiodactyla - Oromerycidae
Protylopus cf. robustus Golz 1976 even-toed ungulate
 Artiodactyla - Protoceratidae
Leptoreodon stocki Kelly 1990 protoceratid