Where: San Diego County, California (32.9° N, 117.1° W: paleocoordinates 32.9° N, 116.8° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Huesos/Tapiado Member (Palm Spring Formation), Irvingtonian (1.8 - 0.3 Ma)
• said to be Irvingtonian
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 20132: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 21.09.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse | |
Capromeryx sp. Matthew 1902 pronghorn | |
Hemiauchenia sp. Gervais and Ameghino 1880 camel |