Barker's Ranch (Miocene of the United States)

Also known as Barker Ranch

Where: Kern County, California (35.4° N, 118.9° W: paleocoordinates 35.3° N, 112.7° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Olcese Sand Member (Temblor Formation), Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• Hemingfordian

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the CAS

Primary reference: R. H. Tedford, T. Galusha, M. F. Skinner, B. E. Taylor, R. W. Fields, J. R. Macdonald, J. M. Rensberger, S. D. Webb, and D. P. Whistler. 1987. Faunal succession and biochronology of the Arikareean through Hemphillian interval (late Oligocene through earliest Pliocene epochs) in North America. In M. O. Woodburne (ed.), Cenozoic Mammals of North America: Geochronology and Biostratigraphy 153-210 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 19151: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002, edited by Mark Uhen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• apparently near Bakersfield
Mammalia
 Cetacea -
"cf. Delphinodon dividum" = Brevirostrodelphis dividum3
"cf. Delphinodon dividum" = Brevirostrodelphis dividum3 True 1912 toothed whale
LACM 41041
 Cetacea - Kentriodontidae
cf. Kentriodon sp.3 Kellogg 1927 toothed whale
UCMP 83605, LACM 29549
aff. Kampholophos sp.3 Rensberger 1969 toothed whale
 Artiodactyla - Palaeomerycidae
Bouromeryx cf. submilleri Frick 1937 ruminant
"cf. Aletomeryx" of Savage and Barnes 1972
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equinae indet.1 Steinmann and Döderlein 1890 horse
 Carnivora - Canidae
Protomarctus cf. optatus1 Matthew 1924 bone-crushing dog
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Pecten (Plagioctenium) andersoni" = Pacipecten andersoni2
"Pecten (Plagioctenium) andersoni" = Pacipecten andersoni2 Arnold 1906 scallop
subspecies barkerianus