Also known as Vallecito Badlands
Where: California (33.0° N, 116.1° W: paleocoordinates 32.8° N, 115.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Palm Springs Formation, Blancan to Blancan (4.9 - 0.3 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the LACM
• "Material used in this study was collected by field parties of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, under the direction of Theodore Downs, from 1957 to the present" (Norell 1989)
Primary reference: M. A. Norell. 1989. Late Cenozoic Lizards of the Anza Borrego Desert, California. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Contributions in Science 414:1-31 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 199543: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 30.01.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Teiini indet. Presch 1974 squamates LACM 6831/20929, LACM 6583/78300, LACM 1454/123325, LACM 1615/78299, LACM 1114/123326, LACM 1114/123327, LACM 1114/123328, LACM 1114/123329, LACM 1114/78194
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Xantusia downsi n. sp.
Xantusia downsi n. sp. Norell 1989 night lizard LACM 1114/123301 (holotype); LACM 1114/78198, LACM 1114/123302, LACM 1114/123303, LACM 1114/123304, LACM 1114/123305, LACM 1114/123306, LACM 1114/123307, LACM 1114/123308, LACM 1114/123309, LACM 1114/123310, LACM 1114/123311, LACM 1114/123312, LACM 1114/123313, LACM 1114/123315, LACM 1114/123316, LACM 1114/123317, LACM 1114/123318, LACM 1114/123319, LACM 1114/123335, LACM 1323/78292, LACM 6583/78244, LACM 1615/78274
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Eumeces sp. Wiegmann 1834 skink LACM 6522/123324, LACM 1437/78277, LACM 1437/178236, LACM 1615/78308
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Dipsosaurus dorsalis, Pumilia novaceki n. gen. n. sp., Phrynosoma sp., Phrynosoma anzaense n. sp., cf. Sceloporus "Type A", cf. Sceloporus "Type B"
Dipsosaurus dorsalis Baird and Girard 1852 Desert iguana LACM 6831/20930, LACM 6559/10598, LACM 6552/78311, LACM 65571/10604
cf. Sceloporus "Type A" Wiegmann 1828 spiny lizard LACM 6583/78235, LACM 6540/78305, LACM 6540/78306, LACM 6540/78307, LACM 1454/(unnumbered specimen), LACM 1196/78211, LACM 1196/78212, LACM 6712/20931, LACM 1615/4401, LACM 1615/78721, LACM 1615/78276, LACM 1615/78272, LACM 1113/123323, LACM 1114/78205, LACM 1114/123320, LACM 1114/123321, LACM 1114/123322, LACM 1114/123333, LACM 1114/12334, LACM 6707/78241, LACM 1297/64126
cf. Sceloporus "Type B" Wiegmann 1828 spiny lizard LACM 6583/78246, LACM 6583/78247, LACM 6583/78248, LACM 6583/78249, LACM 6583/78250, LACM 1615/4401, LACM 1114/123330, LACM 1114/123331, LACM 1114/123332
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Gambelia corona n. sp.
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