Alvord Powerline (Miocene of the United States)

Also known as SBCM 1.74.11, 1.74.12

Where: San Bernardino County, California (34.8° N, 117.0° W: paleocoordinates 33.9° N, 111.4° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Barstow Formation, Hemingfordian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. E. Reynolds. 1991. Hemingfordian/Barstovian Land Mammal Age faunas in the central Mojave Desert, exclusive of the Barstow Fossil Beds. In M.O. Woodburne, R.E. Reynolds, and D.P. Whistler, (eds.), San Bernardino County Museum Association Quarterly 38(3):88-90 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 19139: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.03.1995

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Taxonomic list

• Clews Ridge is immediately east of Alvord Mountain: see Woodburne et al. 1982
relationship to other Alvord sites not clear from text
"below the lowest dated basalt (16.47 +/- 0.5 Ma)"; this is in the same Clews Ridge section, see Woodburne 1991b
Mammalia
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Copemys sp. Wood 1936 mouse
 Rodentia - Geomyidae
"Proheteromys lophatus" = Mojavemys lophatus
"Proheteromys lophatus" = Mojavemys lophatus Lindsay 1972 pocket gopher
 Rodentia - Heteromyidae
Cupidinimus boronensis Whistler 1984 rodent
Proheteromys sulculus Wilson 1960 rodent
"Heliscomys subtilis" = Mookomys subtilis Lindsay 1972 rodent