Sunset Quarry (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: Middle Member (Barstow Formation), Barstovian (16.3 - 12.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: T. S. Kelly and E. B. Lander. 1988. Biostratigraphy and Correlation of Hemingfordian and Barstovian Land Mammal Assemblages, Caliente Formation, Cuyama Valley Area, California. In W. J. M. Bazeley (ed.), Tertiary Tectonics and Sedimentation in the Cuyama Basin, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and Ventura Counties, California 1-19 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details

PaleoDB collection 19567: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 19.05.2000, edited by Jonathan Marcot

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Taxonomic list

• see also Woodburne et al. 1990
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Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Merycoidodontidae
Brachycrus laticeps
Brachycrus laticeps Douglass 1900 oreodont
"Brachycrus laticeps laticeps":
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Aphelops megalodus2
Aphelops megalodus2 Cope 1873 rhinoceros
"Sunset Wash"
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Acritohippus stylodontus1
Acritohippus stylodontus1 Merriam 1919 horse
Supplemental Table S1
1Mihlbachler et al. 2011; 2Prothero 2005