UCMP V-2702, Claremont Canyon (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Alameda County, California (37.9° N, 122.2° W: paleocoordinates 37.1° N, 117.9° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Orinda Formation, Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: R. A. Stirton. 1939. Cenozoic Mammal Remains From the San Francisco Bay Region. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences 24(13):339-410 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 19297: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002

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Taxonomic list

• Orinda Fm. sensu stricto: see Creely et al. 1982
adjacent to Contra Costa Co.
Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equinae indet. Steinmann and Döderlein 1890 horse
"? Nannippus": clearly indeterminate; JA pers. obs. 7.1.95