California Oaks (SBCM 05.006.207) (Pleistocene of the United States)

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: A. F. Pajak, iii, E. Scott, and C. J. Bell. 1996. A review of the biostratigraphy of Pliocene and Pleistocene sediments in the Elsinore Fault Zone, Riverside County, California. PaleoBios 17(2-4):28-49 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]more details

PaleoDB collection 20200: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 21.09.1999

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Taxonomic list

• NISP 105
Mammalia
 Rodentia - Geomyidae
Thomomys cf. bottae Eydoux and Gervais 1836 Botta's pocket gopher
 Rodentia - Heteromyidae
Dipodomys sp. Gray 1841 kangaroo rat
large and small
Perognathinae indet. Coues 1875 rodent
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Peromyscus sp. Gloger 1841 deer mouse
Microtus californicus Peale 1848 California vole
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Leporidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817 rabbit
medium
Sylvilagus sp. Gray 1867 cottontail rabbit
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
"Equus cf. scotti" = Equus mexicanus
"Equus cf. scotti" = Equus mexicanus Hibbard 1955 horse
 Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Mammut sp. Blumenbach 1799 mastodon