Woody, southwest (Oligocene of the United States)

Where: Kern County, California (35.7° N, 118.9° W: paleocoordinates 35.4° N, 109.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Pyramid Hill Member (Jewett Formation), Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)

• age assignments vary; age after Scheirer and Magoon 2007

Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. E. Wilson. 1935. Miocene marine mammals from the Bakersfield region, California. The Peabody Museum of Natural History Bulletin 4:1-143 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 58148: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 24.01.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Carnivora - Desmatophocidae
Allodesmus cf. kernensis Kellogg 1922 pinniped
 Carnivora - Phocidae
Phocidae indet. Gray 1821 seal
 Carnivora - Otariidae
Otariidae indet. eared seal
 Cetacea -
Miodelphis californicus n. gen. n. sp. Wilson 1935 toothed whale
Macrodelphinus kelloggi n. gen. n. sp. Wilson 1935 toothed whale
Macrodelphinus kelloggi Wilson 1935 toothed whale
 Cetacea - Allodelphinidae
Allodelphis pratti n. gen. n. sp.
Allodelphis pratti n. gen. n. sp. Wilson 1935 toothed whale
 Cetacea -
"Eurhinodelphis extensus n. sp." = Argyrocetus joaquinensis, "Doliodelphis littlei n. gen. n. sp." = Argyrocetus joaquinensis, "Acrodelphis bakersfieldensis n. sp." = Argyrocetus bakersfieldensis
"Eurhinodelphis extensus n. sp." = Argyrocetus joaquinensis Kellogg 1932 toothed whale
"Doliodelphis littlei n. gen. n. sp." = Argyrocetus joaquinensis Kellogg 1932 toothed whale
"Acrodelphis bakersfieldensis n. sp." = Argyrocetus bakersfieldensis Wilson 1935 toothed whale