Lake Bed (Miocene of the United States)

Also known as UCMP V-5253

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: E. H. Lindsay. 1972. Small mammal fossils from the Barstow Formation, California. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 93:1-104 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 19416: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993

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Taxonomic list

• NISP 96
illustrated as being just below the Hemicyon Tuff by Lindsay, which is likely to be correct because Woodburne et al. 1990 confirm the identification of this tuff in Lindsay's adjacent Fuller Earth Canyon section
Mammalia
 Soricomorpha - Soricidae
Limnoecus tricuspis Stirton 1930 shrew
 Rodentia - Geomyidae
"Proheteromys lophatus" = Mojavemys lophatus1
"Proheteromys lophatus" = Mojavemys lophatus1 Lindsay 1972 pocket gopher
 Rodentia - Heteromyidae
Perognathus minutus James 1963 pocket mouse
Perognathus furlongi Gazin 1930 pocket mouse
Cupidinimus lindsayi2 Barnosky 1986 rodent
Cupidinimus halli1 Wood 1936 rodent
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
Petauristodon minimus1 Lindsay 1972 squirrel
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Copemys tenuis Lindsay 1972 rodent
Copemys barstowensis Lindsay 1972 rodent
Copemys longidens Hall 1930 rodent
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Hypolagus fontinalis3 Dawson 1958 rabbit