Padrones Spring (Miocene of the United States)
Also known as CIT 312, 313; Jerd Spring; USGS M-1157
Where: San Luis Obispo County, California (35.1° N, 120.0° W: paleocoordinates 34.4° N, 115.6° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Reposited in the USGS
Primary reference: J. F. Dougherty. 1940. A new Miocene mammalian fauna from Caliente Mountain, California. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 514(8):109-143 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
PaleoDB collection 19477: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.03.1995
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• Jerd Spring is CIT 313/M-1157, Padrones Spring is CIT 312: Kelly and Lander 1988
Dougherty also reports an indeterminate antilocaprid from CIT 170, stratigraphically well above the other localities near Padrones Spring
said to be above the Upper Triple Basalt, but actually below it: Kelly and Lander 1988; dated at 14.6 +/- 0.6 Ma and 14.8 +/- 0.8 Ma (KA)
appears to be the type locality of "M. calimontanus" and to be the fauna associated with a "late Miocene marine mollusk fauna at Padrones Spring" (Repenning and Vedder 1961)
Dougherty also reports an indeterminate antilocaprid from CIT 170, stratigraphically well above the other localities near Padrones Spring
said to be above the Upper Triple Basalt, but actually below it: Kelly and Lander 1988; dated at 14.6 +/- 0.6 Ma and 14.8 +/- 0.8 Ma (KA)
appears to be the type locality of "M. calimontanus" and to be the fauna associated with a "late Miocene marine mollusk fauna at Padrones Spring" (Repenning and Vedder 1961)
Show authors, comments, and common names
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Hypohippus sp. Leidy 1858 anchitheriine horse | |
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Rhinocerotidae indet. Gray 1821 rhinoceros | |
"Merychyus calimontanus n. sp." = Ticholeptus calimontanus
"Merychyus calimontanus n. sp." = Ticholeptus calimontanus Dougherty 1940 oreodont from CIT 312; also at 313, see Kelly and Lander 1988
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