Vallecito Creek (CU 54) ( of the United States)

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 20122: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 21.09.1999, edited by Jonathan Marcot

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Carnivora - Felidae
Lynx rufus Schreber 1777 bobcat
Puma lacustris1 Gazin 1933 cougar
 Carnivora - Mustelidae
Trigonictis macrodon Cope 1868 mustelid carnivore
see Anderson 1984
Lontra canadensis1 Schreber 1776 North American river otter
 Carnivora - Canidae
Urocyon galushai2 Tedford et al. 2009 gray fox
Canis sp. Linnaeus 1758 canine
Canis latrans Say 1823 coyote
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
"Equus sp." = Equus, "Equus (Equus) sp." = Equus, "Equus (Dolichohippus) sp." = Equus, Equus enormis
"Equus sp." = Equus Linnaeus 1758 horse
"Equus (Equus) sp." = Equus Linnaeus 1758 horse
"Equus (Dolichohippus) sp." = Equus Linnaeus 1758 horse
Equus enormis Downs and Miller 1994 horse
probably includes type of Downs and Miller 1994 from zone 54; record actually shown at about level of CU 52 by Cassiliano
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Titanotylopus sp. Barbour and Schultz 1934 camel
Camelops sp. Leidy 1854 camel
Hemiauchenia sp. Gervais and Ameghino 1880 camel
 Artiodactyla - Tayassuidae
Platygonus sp. Leconte 1848 peccary
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Cervus sp. Linnaeus 1758 deer
Odocoileus sp. Rafinesque 1832 New World deer
 Theriamorpha - Talpidae
Scapanus malatinus Hutchison 1987 mole
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
Spermophilus sp. Cuvier 1825 ground squirrel
 Rodentia - Heteromyidae
Dipodomys compactus True 1889 Gulf Coast kangaroo rat
 Rodentia - Geomyidae
Geomyidae indet.1 Bonaparte 1845 pocket gopher
Nerterogeomys garbanii1 White and Downs 1961 pocket gopher
Nerterogeomys anzensis1 Becker and White 1981 pocket gopher
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Sigmodon sp. Say and Ord 1825 cotton rat
Hodomys sp. Merriam 1894 mouse
"Neotoma (Hodomys) sp."
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Sylvilagus hibbardi White 1984 cottontail rabbit