Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (Miocene of the United States)

Also known as UCMP V68129

Where: San Mateo County, California (37.4° N, 122.2° W: paleocoordinates 36.7° N, 118.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ladera Formation, Serravallian (13.8 - 11.6 Ma)

• middle middle Miocene, correlated with the Temblor provisional provincial mega-invertebrate stage of Addicott (1972), and indirectly with the Luisian and perhaps part of the Relizian foraminiferal stages and with the Barstovian North American Land Mammal Age, adn therefore approximately 14 Ma

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: D. P. Domning and L. G. Barnes. 2007. A new name for the 'Stanford Skeleton' of Paleoparadoxia (Mammalia, Desmostylia). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(3):748-751 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 75060: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 18.09.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Paleoparadoxiidae
Paleoparadoxia sp., "Paleoparadoxia repenningi n. sp." = Neoparadoxia repenningi
Paleoparadoxia sp. Reinhart 1959 desmostylian
"Paleoparadoxia repenningi n. sp." = Neoparadoxia repenningi Domning and Barnes 2007 desmostylian
Stanford skeleton