Leader Quarry: Barstovian, California

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Carnivora - Amphicyonidae
Ischyrocyon sp. Matthew and Gidley 1904
Hunt 1998
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Microtomarctus conferta (Matthew 1918)
Aelurodon asthenostylus Wang et al. 1999
Paratomarctus temerarius (Leidy 1858)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Anchitheriinae indet. (Leidy 1869)
Gonzalez and Lofgren 2013
original and current combination Anchitheridae
"Hypohippus or Megahippus undifferentiated"
Scaphohippus intermontanus (Merriam 1915)
Pagnac 2006
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Aphelops megalodus (Cope 1873)
Prothero 2005
Mammalia - Antilocapridae
Meryceros joraki Frick 1937
Frick 1937
    = Merycodus joraki Frick 1937
Alroy 2002
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:California County:San Bernardino
Coordinates: 34.8° North, 117.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.1° North, 112.3° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval:Barstovian
Age range of interval:15.97000 - 13.60000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Barstow Member:Upper
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Taxonomic list comments:said to be in the Barstow fauna sensu Woodburne et al. 1990 by Wang et al. 1999
Metadata
Database number:19422
Authorizer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot Enterer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:2000-05-19 00:00:00 Last modified:2006-09-13 01:07:57
Access level:the public Released:2000-05-19 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

3558. X. Wang, R. H. Tedford, and B. E. Taylor. 1999. Phylogenetic systematics of the Borophaginae (Carnivora: Canidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 243:1-392 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
6222 C. Frick. 1937. Horned ruminants of North America. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 69:1-669 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
63541 B. Gonzalez and D. L. Lofgren. 2013. Review of Megahippus and Hypohippus from the Middle Miocene Barstow Formation of California. In R. E. Reynolds (ed.), Raising Questions in the Central Mojave Desert 78-89 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]
1977 R. M. Hunt, Jr. 1998. Amphicyonidae. 196-227 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
31462 D. Pagnac. 2006. Scaphohippus, a new genus of horse (Mammalia: Equidae) from the Barstow Formation of California. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 13(1):37-61 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
51726 D. R. Prothero. 2005. The Evolution of North American Rhinoceroses. 1-218 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]