North Dome (UCMP V-3520) (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Kings County, California (35.9° N, 120.0° W: paleocoordinates 35.2° N, 115.7° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: C. A. Repenning. 1976. Enhydra and Enhydriodon from the Pacific Coast of North America. Journal of Research of the United States Geological Survey 4(3):305-315 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 19461: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 05.08.1996, edited by Patricia Holroyd

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Taxonomic list

• from or just above the Littorina zone of Woodring et al. 1940; 950' below Pecten zone
"could be latest Miocene or early Pliocene"
Mammalia
 Carnivora - Mustelidae
Enhydritherium terraenovae1 Berta and Morgan 1985 otter
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Dolomys sp.2 Nehring 1898 rodent