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 20117: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 21.09.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Sigmodon sp. Say and Ord 1825 cotton rat | |
Geomyidae indet. Bonaparte 1845 pocket gopher
Nerterogeomys garbanii White and Downs 1961 pocket gopher | |
Perognathinae indet. Coues 1875 rodent | |
Erethizon sp. Cuvier 1822 North American porcupine | |
Sylvilagus sp. Gray 1867 cottontail rabbit
Sylvilagus hibbardi White 1984 cottontail rabbit | |
Hemiauchenia sp. Gervais and Ameghino 1880 camel | |
Capromeryx sp. Matthew 1902 pronghorn | |
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Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse | |
Borophagus diversidens Cope 1892 bone-crushing dog
Canis sp. Linnaeus 1758 canine
Canis latrans Say 1823 coyote | |
Ursus americanus Pallas 1780 black bear | |
"Nothrotheriops shastensis" = Nothrotherium shastense
"Nothrotheriops shastensis" = Nothrotherium shastense Sinclair 1905 Shasta ground sloth |