Titus Canyon: Chadronian, California
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Canidae indet.
Fischer de Waldheim 1817
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Mesohippus sp.
Marsh 1875
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= Equidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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? Eotrigonias mortivallis n. sp.
Stock 1949
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recombined as Teletaceras mortivallis | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Tapiridae
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Colodon sp.
Marsh 1890
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Brontotheriidae
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Menodontinae indet.
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"Menodontine titanothere" | ||||||||||
= Telmatheriinae indet.
Osborn 1914
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
spelled with current rank as Telmatheriina | ||||||||||
described by Stock 1936e from CIT 255 | ||||||||||
Protitanops curryi n. sp.
Stock 1936
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from CIT 253: see Stock 1936e | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Protoceratidae
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? Poabromylus robustus
Stock 1949
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Mammalia
- Leptomerycidae
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Leptomeryx blacki
Stock 1949
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(2 measurements) | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Agriochoeridae
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Agriochoerus transmontanus
Stock 1949
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recombined as Protoreodon transmontanus | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Aplodontidae
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Aplodontidae indet.
Brandt 1855
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Ischyromyidae
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? Paramyinae indet.
Simpson 1945
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | California | County: | Inyo |
Coordinates: | 36.8° North, 117.0° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 39.0° North, 109.2° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
Stage: | Priabonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 3 |
*Period: | Tertiary | ||
Key time interval: | Chadronian | ||
Age range of interval: | 37.20000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Titus Canyon |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | not reported |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Taxonomic list comments:initially reported by Stock and Bode 1935 |
Metadata
Also known as: | CIT 253, 254, 255, 256, 257 | ||
Database number: | 17029 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
Modifier: | J. Marcot | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2021-02-26 11:40:54 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
3285. | C. Stock. 1949. Mammalian Fauna from Titus Canyon Formation, California. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 584:229-244 [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] |