Rancho del Oro Village III Site 13-N (SDSNH 3450): Late Uintan - Duchesnean, California
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Sciuravidae
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Sciuravus powayensis
Wilson 1940
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Eomyidae
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Namatomys sp.
Black 1965
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Walsh 1997 | |||||||||
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= Metanoiamys agorus
Chiment and Korth 1996
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
| replaces ID of Walsh 1996b; "cf. Pauromys | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | California | County: | San Diego |
| Coordinates: | 33.2° North, 117.3° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 33.2° North, 104.5° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 2-3 - Cenozoic 3 | ||
| *Period: | Early/Lower Tertiary | *Epoch: | Late/Upper Eocene | *Local age/stage: | Late/Upper Uintan - Early/Lower Duchesnean |
| Key time interval: | Late Uintan - Duchesnean | ||
| Age range of interval: | 46.2 - 37 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "siliciclastic" |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Mesa Drive, in part | ||
| Database number: | 16619 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1997-04-12 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2017-04-15 18:12:04 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1997-04-12 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 3538. | S. L. Walsh. 1991. Eocene mammal faunas of San Diego County. Pacific Section SEPM 68:161-178 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
| 7758 | D. R. Prothero. 2001. Magnetic stratigraphy of the middle Eocene Santiago Formation, San Diego and Orange counties, California. Magnetic Stratigraphy of the Pacific Coast Cenozoic (D. R. Prothero, ed.) 107-118 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
| 3541 | S. L. Walsh. 1997. New specimens of Metanoiamys, Pauromys, and Simimys (Rodentia: Myomorpha) from the Uintan (middle Eocene) of San Diego County, California, and comments on the relationships of selected Paleogene Myomorpha. Proceedings of the San Diego Society of Natural History 32:1-20 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] |