Barstow (Locality WS Bar 4) (Miocene of the United States)

Where: San Bernardino County, California (34.8° N, 117.0° W: paleocoordinates 34.1° N, 112.3° W)

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• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Member (Barstow Formation), Barstovian (16.3 - 12.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: G. E. Lewis. 1968. Stratigraphic Paleontology of the Barstow Formation in the Alvord Mountain Area, San Bernardino County, California. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 600-C:75-79 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details

PaleoDB collection 19153: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 19.05.2000

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Taxonomic list

• "800 feet below Diblee's 'lower marker tuff bed'" = about 150' above the Oreodont Tuff, i.e., in the Green Hills fauna sensu Woodburne et al. 1990
Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Acritohippus cf. stylodontus Merriam 1919 horse
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Camelidae indet. Gray 1821 camel
 Artiodactyla - Merycoidodontidae
"Brachycrus buwaldi" = Brachycrus laticeps Douglass 1900 oreodont
Merychyus cf. elegans Leidy 1858 oreodont