Where: San Diego County, California (32.9° N, 117.1° W: paleocoordinates 32.7° N, 116.1° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Huesos/Tapiado Member (Palm Spring Formation), Blancan (4.9 - 1.8 Ma)
• said to be Blancan
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Primary reference: M. L. Cassiliano. 1999. Biostratigraphy of Blancan and Irvingtonian mammals in the Fish Creek-Vallecito Creek section, southern California, and a review of the Blancan-Irvingtonian boundary. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 19(1):169-186 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 20112: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 21.09.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Megalonyx sp. Harlan 1825 edentate | |
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Platygonus sp. Leconte 1848 peccary | |
Hemiauchenia sp. Gervais and Ameghino 1880 camel
Camelops sp. Leidy 1854 camel | |
Capromeryx sp. Matthew 1902 pronghorn
Tetrameryx sp. Lull 1921 pronghorn | |
Peromyscus sp., Sigmodon sp., "Sigmodon medius" = Sigmodon minor, Repomys sp., Hodomys sp., Reithrodontomys sp.
Peromyscus sp. Gloger 1841 deer mouse
Sigmodon sp. Say and Ord 1825 cotton rat
"Sigmodon medius" = Sigmodon minor Gidley 1922 cotton rat
Repomys sp. May 1981 mouse
Reithrodontomys sp. Giglioli 1874 harvest mouse | |
Geomyidae indet. Bonaparte 1845 pocket gopher
Microdipodops sp. Merriam 1891 pocket gopher | |
Dipodomys sp. Gray 1841 kangaroo rat
Dipodomys hibbardi Zakrzewski 1981 kangaroo rat
Dipodomys compactus True 1889 Gulf Coast kangaroo rat
Perognathinae indet. Coues 1875 rodent |