CIT loc. 292, Sespe Creek, Transverse Ranges (Eocene of the United States)
Where: Ventura County, California (34.6° N, 119.3° W: paleocoordinates 34.0° N, 107.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Sespe Formation, Duchesnean (39.7 - 37.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; massive, brown, gray, red sandstone
• The titanothere remains were encountered in massive gray-brown to pink sandstones of the Sespe on Sespe Creek (Plate 1). These heavily bedded and well indurated strata are conformable to the sandstones and shales of the marine upper Eocene.
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: C. Stock. 1938. A Titanothere from the Type Sespe of California. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 24(11):507-512 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 16818: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• CIT 420, 421, 422 are also on Sespe Creek
type locality of formation
near Hartman Ranch
only one mammal based on Golz and Lillegraven 1977
type locality of formation
near Hartman Ranch
only one mammal based on Golz and Lillegraven 1977
Show authors, comments, and common names
| Mammalia | |
"Teleodus cf. californicus" = Duchesneodus californicus
"Teleodus cf. californicus" = Duchesneodus californicus Stock 1935 brontothere | |