Mammoth Cove Sandstone (Pleistocene of the United States)
Where: San Diego County, California (32.9° N, 117.1° W: paleocoordinates 32.9° N, 116.8° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Ocotillo Formation, Irvingtonian (1.8 - 0.3 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Primary reference: G. T. Jefferson and P. Remeika. 1994. The Mid-Pleistocene Stratigraphic Co-occurrence of Mammuthus columbi and M. imperator in the Ocotillo Formation, Borrego Badlands, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California. Current Research in the Pleistocene 11:89-92 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details
PaleoDB collection 20409: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.03.1995
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• in a reversed chron identified as C1r.1r
basal unit of fm.
see also Remeika and Jefferson 1994
not clear how this relates to Borrego Badlands and Coyote Canyon
basal unit of fm.
see also Remeika and Jefferson 1994
not clear how this relates to Borrego Badlands and Coyote Canyon
Show authors, comments, and common names
| Mammalia | |
"Mammuthus imperator" = Mammuthus columbi, Mammuthus hayi
"Mammuthus imperator" = Mammuthus columbi Falconer 1857 imperial mammoth
Mammuthus hayi Barbour 1915 mammoth | |