Pearson Ranch (Bed CS16): Duchesnean, California

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines
Chelonia indet. (Latreille 1800)
Golz and Lillegraven 1977
synonym of Testudines
Reptilia - Anguidae
Anguidae indet. Gray 1825
Golz and Lillegraven 1977
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
Duchesneodus californicus (Stock 1935)
    = Duchesneodus uintensis Peterson 1931
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Hyracodontidae
? Triplopus woodi Stock 1936
Stock 1936 1 specimen
described by Stock 1936c from CIT 148;
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Amynodontidae
Amynodontopsis bodei Stock 1933
Mammalia - Praetragulidae
Simimeryx hudsoni Stock 1934
Mammalia - Agriochoeridae
Protoreodon pacificus Golz 1976
Mammalia - Protoceratidae
Leptoreodon stocki Kelly 1990
Mammalia - Carnivora
? Carnivora indet. Bowdich 1821
Golz and Lillegraven 1977
from CIT 148
Mammalia - Sespedectidae
Sespedectes singularis Stock 1935
Mammalia - Rodentia - Ischyromyidae
Microparamys tricus (Wilson 1940)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Simimyidae
Simimys simplex (Wilson 1935)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cylindrodontidae
Pareumys milleri Peterson 1919
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:California County:Ventura
Coordinates: 34.3° North, 119.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.7° North, 107.3° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 3
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval:Duchesnean
Age range of interval:39.70000 - 37.00000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Sespe
Local section:SimiV Local bed:26
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:LACM
Metadata
Also known as:CIT 148, LACM 3379, 5641
Database number:16806
Authorizer:J. Alroy, P. Holroyd Enterer:J. Alroy, P. Holroyd
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-02-18 00:00:00 Last modified:2008-11-10 16:35:15
Access level:the public Released:1993-02-18 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

2059. T. S. Kelly. 1990. Biostratigraphy of Uintan and Duchesnean land mammal assemblages from the Middle Member of the Sespe Formation, Simi Valley, California. Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 419:1-42 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
1681 D. J. Golz and J. A. Lillegraven. 1977. Summary of known occurrences of terrestrial vertebrates from Eocene strata of southern California. Contributions to Geology, University of Wyoming 15(1):43-65 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]
3275 C. Stock. 1936. Perissodactyla of the Sespe Eocene, California. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 22(5):260-265 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]