Where: Contra Costa County, California (37.9° N, 122.2° W: paleocoordinates 37.1° N, 117.9° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Siesta Formation, Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the UCMP
Primary reference: R. A. Stirton. 1939. Cenozoic Mammal Remains From the San Francisco Bay Region. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences 24(13):339-410 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 19146: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.03.1995
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
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Leporidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817 rabbit | |
"Eucastor lecontei n. sp." = Prodipoides lecontei
"Eucastor lecontei n. sp." = Prodipoides lecontei Merriam 1896 beaver see Stirton 1935; mentioned also by Creely et al. 1982
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