Where: San Diego County, California (32.9° N, 117.1° W: paleocoordinates 32.7° N, 116.1° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: San Diego Formation, Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• Blancan
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: foreshore; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Primary reference: T. A. Deméré. 1994. Two new species of fossil walruses (Pinnipedia: Odobenidae) from the Upper Pliocene San Diego Formation, California. Proceedings of the San Diego Society of Natural History 29:77-98 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 19703: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri | |
Symbolophorus californiensis5, Diaphus theta5, Ceratoscopelus townsendi5, "Stenobrachius leucopsarus" = Stenobrachius leucopsarum5, Notoscopelus resplendens5
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Mammalia | |
Megalonyx sp. Harlan 1825 edentate | |
Hydrodamalis cuestae Domning 1978 Cuesta sea cow | |
Stegomastodon sp. Pohlig 1912 gomphothere listed as "S. cf. rexroadensis" by Domning and Demere 1984
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Tapirus sp. Brisson 1762 tapir | |
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse | |
Cervidae indet. Gray 1821 deer | |
Platygonus sp. Leconte 1848 peccary | |
cf. Hemiauchenia sp. Gervais and Ameghino 1880 camel | |
Parapontoporia sternbergi Gregory and Kellogg 1927 toothed whale | |
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Balaenoptera davidsonii Cope 1872 rorqual | |
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Spilogale sp. Gray 1865 skunk | |
Callorhinus gilmorei n. sp.2
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Caninae indet. Gill 1872 canine | |
"Lynx cf. rexroadensis" = Felis rexroadensis1
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Leporidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817 rabbit | |
Neotoma sp. Say and Ord 1825 pack rat | |
Heteromyidae indet. Gray 1868 rodent | |
Aves | |
Brachyramphus dunkeli n. sp.4, "Brachyramphus pliocenus" = Brachyramphus pliocenum6, Synthliboramphus rineyi n. sp.4, "Ptychoramphus tenuis" = Ptychoramphus aleuticus7, Cerorhinca sp.4, Cerorhinca reai n. sp.4, Mancalla vegrandis n. sp.8, Mancalla californiensis6, Mancalla lucasi8
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"Mancalla diegense" = Pliolunda diegense6
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Lechusa stirtoni n. gen. n. sp.6
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"Sula humeralis n. sp." = Morus humeralis7
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