Where: San Bernardino County, California (34.5° N, 116.2° W: paleocoordinates 33.8° N, 111.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Member (Barstow Formation), Barstovian (16.3 - 12.5 Ma)
• single specimen; said to be 50' below Hemicyon Quarry by Woodburne 1969, which is well within the "P. stirtoni" zone of Lindsay 1972 because this extends from the Skyline Tuff to about the level of the Hemicyon Tuff
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: C. Stock. 1937. A peccary skull from the Barstow Miocene of California. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 23(7):398-404 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/W. Clyde]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 19152: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 19.05.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Dyseohyus fricki n. gen. n. sp.
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