Also known as DUPLICATE REF 2893 or 2894
Where: Riverside County, California (33.9° N, 117.0° W: paleocoordinates 33.9° N, 116.7° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: "unnamed sandstone" Formation, Irvingtonian (1.8 - 0.3 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Primary reference: R. E. Reynolds, R. L. Reynolds, and A. F. Pajak, III. 1991. Blancan, Irvingtonian, and Rancholabrean(?) land mammal age faunas from western Riverside County, California. In R.E. Reynolds, D.P. Whistler (eds.), San Bernardino County Museum Association Quarterly 38(3-4):37-40 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details
PaleoDB collection 20173: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.03.1995
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
"unnamed sandstone" Fm. underlies the Pauba Formation and may be younger than the Temecula Arkose, but there is no direct superposition between the two older units
all of the California Oaks localities are said to be late Blancan or early Irvingtonian
locality not discussed by Pajak et al. 1996
Gastropoda | |
Succinea sp. Draparnaud 1801 amber snail | |
Amphibia | |
? Hyla sp. Laurenti 1768 tree frog | |
Bufo sp. Laurenti 1768 toad | |
Plethodontinae indet. lungless salamander | |
Reptilia | |
Colubridae indet. Oppel 1811 colubrid snake | |
Crotalus sp. Linnaeus 1758 rattlesnake | |
Emydinae indet. Rafinesque 1815 turtle | |
Mammalia | |
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Mammut sp. Blumenbach 1799 mastodon | |
Leporidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817 rabbit
Sylvilagus sp. Gray 1867 cottontail rabbit | |
Neotoma (Neotoma) sp. Say and Ord 1825 pack rat
Peromyscus sp. Gloger 1841 deer mouse
Microtus sp. Schrank 1798 vole
"Clethrionomys sp." = Myodes Pallas 1811 vole | |
Sciuridae indet. Gray 1821 squirrel
? Spermophilus sp. Cuvier 1825 ground squirrel | |
Dipodomys sp. Gray 1841 kangaroo rat | |
Thomomys sp. Wied-Neuwied 1839 pocket gopher | |
Canis cf. latrans Say 1823 coyote | |
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Actinopteri | |
Gasterosteus aculeatus Linnaeus 1758 three-spined stickleback | |
? Gila sp. Baird and Girard 1853 carp-like fish |