UCMP 1037, Hipparion Point: Miocene, California
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Ranidae
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Rana pliocenica n. sp.
Zweifel 1954
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Zweifel 1954 | 1 specimen | |||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Pliohippus cf. interpolatus
(Cope 1893)
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= Dinohippus sp.
Quinn 1955
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Alroy 2002 | ||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Teleoceras cf. fossiger
(Cope 1878)
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= Teleoceras sp.
Hatcher 1894
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Alroy 2002 | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | California | County: | Contra Costa |
| Coordinates: | 38.0° North, 122.3° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 37.9° North, 117.5° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5-6 | ||
| *Period: | Tertiary | ||
| Key time interval: | Miocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 23.03000 - 5.33300 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Pinole Tuff | ||
| Local section: | MDiab | Local bed: | 4 |
| Local order: | bottom to top |
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 |
| Museum repositories: | UCMP |
Metadata
| Database number: | 19370 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy, P. Holroyd | Enterer: | J. Alroy, P. Holroyd |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2017-04-16 20:11:28 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 3233. | R. A. Stirton. 1939. Cenozoic Mammal Remains From the San Francisco Bay Region. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences 24(13):339-410 [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] | |
| 64977 | R. G. Zweifel. 1954. A new Rana from the Pliocene of California. Copeia (2)85-87 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd] |