Round Mountain Silt: Barstovian, California
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Tapiridae
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Miotapirus sp.
Schlaikjer 1937
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Prothero et al. 2008 | |||||||||
| LACM 131933 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Aphelops megalodus
(Cope 1873)
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Prothero et al. 2008 | |||||||||
| LACM 132646 | ||||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Otodontidae
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Carcharocles megalodon
(Agassiz 1835)
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| recombined as Otodus megalodon | ||||||||||
| LACM 133455 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | California | County: | Kern |
| Coordinates: | 35.3° North, 119.3° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 34.5° North, 114.7° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | basin |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 | ||
| Key time interval: | Barstovian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 16.30000 - 12.50000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Temblor |
| Regional section: | Round Mountain Silt |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | gray not reported |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some genera |
| Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | LACM |
Metadata
| Also known as: | LACM 6069 | ||
| Database number: | 160740 | ||
| Authorizer: | C. Jaramillo, J. Marcot | Enterer: | C. Pimiento, J. Marcot |
| Created: | 2014-08-27 16:48:12 | Last modified: | 2014-08-27 16:48:12 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2014-08-27 16:48:12 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 49081. | C. Pimiento and M. Balk. 2015. The extinct giant shark Carcharocles megalodon: A model for understanding deep-time body size trends of marine apex predators. [C. Jaramillo/C. Pimiento/C. Pimiento] |
Secondary references:
| 33296 | D. R. Prothero, M. R. Liter, L. G. Barnes, X. Wang, E. Mitchell, S. McLeod, D. P. Whistler, R. H. Tedford, and C. Ray. 2008. Land mammals from the middle Miocene Sharktooth Hill Bonebed, Kern County, California. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 44:299-314 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |