Irvington (Pleistocene of the United States)

Also known as UCMP V-3602, 3604, 3605

Where: Alameda County, California (37.5° N, 122.0° W: paleocoordinates 37.5° N, 121.7° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Irvingtonian (1.8 - 0.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: D. E. Savage. 1951. Late Cenozoic Vertebrates of The San Francisco Bay Region. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences 28(10):215-314 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 20387: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993, edited by Patricia Holroyd and Jonathan Marcot

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• originally described by Stirton 1939 based on a much smaller collectionsaid to be in a magnetically reversed chron by Repenning 1992
Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus columbi Falconer 1857 Columbian mammoth
  - Mylodontidae
Paramylodon harlani5 Owen 1840 Harlan's ground sloth
 Megatherioidea - Nothrotheriidae
"Nothrotheriops texanus" = Nothrotherium texanum5
"Nothrotheriops texanus" = Nothrotherium texanum5 Hay 1916 edentate
 Megatherioidea - Megalonychidae
Megalonyx sp. Harlan 1825 edentate
 Carnivora - Felidae
 Carnivora - Canidae
"Canis dirus" = Aenocyon dirus9, Canis latrans1
"Canis dirus" = Aenocyon dirus9 Leidy 1858 dire wolf
Canis latrans1 Say 1823 coyote
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Hemiauchenia sp.1 Gervais and Ameghino 1880 camel
Camelops hesternus Leidy 1873 camel
Camelops minidokae Hay 1927 camel
 Artiodactyla - Tayassuidae
Tayassuidae indet. Palmer 1897 peccary
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Odocoileus sp. Rafinesque 1832 New World deer
 Artiodactyla - Antilocapridae
Tetrameryx irvingtonensis n. sp. Stirton 1939 pronghorn
see Stirton 1939
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Euceratherium sp. Furlong and Sinclair 1904 shrub-ox
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp.1 Linnaeus 1758 horse
 Theriamorpha - Talpidae
Scapanus latimanus4 Bachman 1842 broad-footed mole
 Rodentia - Heteromyidae
Perognathinae indet.1 Coues 1875 rodent
 Rodentia - Geomyidae
Thomomys sp. Wied-Neuwied 1839 pocket gopher
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
"Spermophilus bensoni" = Citellus (Otospermophilus) bensoni1
"Spermophilus bensoni" = Citellus (Otospermophilus) bensoni1 Gidley 1922 squirrel
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Neotoma sp.7 Say and Ord 1825 pack rat
Peromyscus irvingtonensis n. sp. Savage 1951 deer mouse
Microtus californicus6 Peale 1848 California vole
Aves
 Accipitriformes - Accipitridae
Neophrontops americanus8 Miller 1916 Old World vulture
Reptilia
 Squamata - Iguanidae
Phrynosoma sp.3 Wiegmann 1828 horned lizard
 Squamata - Colubridae
Colubridae indet.3 Oppel 1811 colubrid snake
 Testudines - Emydidae
Emydinae indet.2 Rafinesque 1815 turtle
Amphibia
 Salientia -
 Caudata - Urodela
Urodela indet.3 salamander
Actinopteri
 Cypriniformes - Catostomidae
Catostomidae indet.3 carp-like fish
 Cypriniformes - Cyprinidae
Cyprinidae indet.3 Rafinesque 1815 carp-like fish
Orthodon sp.3 Girard 1856 carp-like fish
5 teeth
 Perciformes - Gasterosteidae
Gasterosteidae indet.3 perch-like fish
 Centrarchiformes - Centrarchidae
Centrarchidae indet.3 Cope 1868 sunfish