Barstow (UCMP 1401) (Miocene of the United States)

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

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Barstow Formation, Barstovian (16.0 - 13.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: J. C. Merriam. 1919. Tertiary mammalian faunas of the Mohave desert. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geology 11(5):437-585 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 19160: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 19.05.2000

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Taxonomic list

• stratigraphic position unclear
Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
"Merychippus intermontanus n. sp." = Scaphohippus intermontanus, Equini indet.
"Merychippus intermontanus n. sp." = Scaphohippus intermontanus Merriam 1915 horse
Equini indet. Quinn 1955 horse
either "Protohippus? or Pliohippus? sp."