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 | |
Lynx rufus Schreber 1777 bobcat | |
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Canis sp. Linnaeus 1758 canine
Canis latrans Say 1823 coyote | |
"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
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Titanotylopus sp. Barbour and Schultz 1934 camel
Camelops sp. Leidy 1854 camel
Hemiauchenia sp. Gervais and Ameghino 1880 camel | |
Platygonus sp. Leconte 1848 peccary | |
Cervus sp. Linnaeus 1758 deer
Odocoileus sp. Rafinesque 1832 New World deer | |
Scapanus malatinus Hutchison 1987 mole | |
Spermophilus sp. Cuvier 1825 ground squirrel | |
Dipodomys compactus True 1889 Gulf Coast kangaroo rat | |
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Sigmodon sp. Say and Ord 1825 cotton rat | |
Sylvilagus hibbardi White 1984 cottontail rabbit |