Also known as CIT 126; UCMP V-4215
Where: Ventura County, California (34.3° N, 119.0° W: paleocoordinates 32.8° N, 110.4° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Sespe Formation, Whitneyan to Whitneyan (33.3 - 30.8 Ma)
• fossils are from a single "horizon"
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red claystone and green sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the CIT
Primary reference: C. Stock. 1932. An upper Oligocene mammalian fauna from southern California. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 18(8):550-554 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 17527: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993, edited by Patricia Holroyd and Jonathan Marcot
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Sespemys thurstoni n. sp.7
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"Hoplophoneus belli n. sp." = Hoplophoneus cerebralis, "Nimravus meridianus n. sp." = Nimravus brachyops
"Hoplophoneus belli n. sp." = Hoplophoneus cerebralis Cope 1880 false sabre-tooth
"Nimravus meridianus n. sp." = Nimravus brachyops Cope 1878 false sabre-tooth | |
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"Hypertragulus fontanus n. sp." = Nanotragulus fontanus6
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"Dyseotylopus migrans n. gen. n. sp." = Miotylopus gibbi6
"Dyseotylopus migrans n. gen. n. sp." = Miotylopus gibbi6 Loomis 1911 camel type of Stock 1935e; "Camelidae indet."; "? Stenomylus campester" of Lander
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Subhyracodon kewi n. sp.
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"Gopherus neglectus n. sp." = Stylemys nebrascensis2 Leidy 1851 turtle "C.I.T. Locality 126, Kew Quarry"
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