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
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Mammalia | |
Allodesmus cf. kernensis Kellogg 1922 pinniped | |
Phocidae indet. Gray 1821 seal | |
Otariidae indet. eared seal | |
Miodelphis californicus n. gen. n. sp., Macrodelphinus kelloggi n. gen. n. sp., Macrodelphinus kelloggi
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 | |
Allodelphis pratti n. gen. n. sp.
Allodelphis pratti n. gen. n. sp. Wilson 1935 toothed whale | |
"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 |