San Timoteo ( of the United States)

Where: Riverside County, California (33.9° N, 117.0° W: paleocoordinates 33.7° N, 116.0° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: lower Member (San Timoteo Formation), Blancan (4.9 - 1.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: C. Frick. 1921. Extinct vertebrate faunas of the badlands of Bautista Creek and San Timoteo Canyon, southern California. University of California Publications in Geology 12(5):277-424 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

PaleoDB collection 19667: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993

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Taxonomic list

• possibly relevant:
Sigmodon minor Reynolds and Reynolds 1994a: Blancan of "San Timoteo formation"
Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
? Cervidae indet. Gray 1821 deer
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Camelidae indet. Gray 1821 camel
"Pliauchenia?" and "Camelid?"
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
"Equus simplicidens" = Plesippus simplicidens
"Equus simplicidens" = Plesippus simplicidens Cope 1892 horse
 Megatherioidea - Megalonychidae
Megalonyx sp. Harlan 1825 edentate