Barstow (CIT 288) (Miocene of the United States)

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

• none given

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
 Artiodactyla - Tayassuidae
Dyseohyus fricki n. gen. n. sp.
Dyseohyus fricki n. gen. n. sp. Stock 1937 peccary
placed at CIT 288 by Woodburne 1969