Oreodont Quarry: Barstovian, California

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hypohippus affinis (Leidy 1858)
Gonzalez and Lofgren 2013
Mammalia - Palaeomerycidae
Rakomeryx raki Frick 1937
Kelly and Lander 1988
synonym of Rakomeryx sinclairi
Mammalia - Merycoidodontidae
Brachycrus laticeps (Douglass 1900)
Kelly and Lander 1988
Mammalia - Carnivora - Amphicyonidae
Amphicyon cf. ingens Matthew 1924
Hunt 1998
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Osbornodon fricki Wang 1994
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
Local section:Barst Local bed:3
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:Oreodont Tuff is "just above" quarry (Woodburne et al. 1999) and is dated at 15.8 +/- 0.09 Ma (Ar-Ar: MacFadden et al. 1990); Turbin Quarry is at the same level
Metadata
Also known as:Oreodon Quarry
Database number:19472
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 00:34:39
Access level:the public Released:2000-05-19 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

6226. X. Wang. 1994. Phylogenetic systematics of the Hesperocyoninae (Carnivora: Canidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 221:1-207 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

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]
2070 T. S. Kelly and E. B. Lander. 1988. Biostratigraphy and Correlation of Hemingfordian and Barstovian Land Mammal Assemblages, Caliente Formation, Cuyama Valley Area, California. In W. J. M. Bazeley (ed.), Tertiary Tectonics and Sedimentation in the Cuyama Basin, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and Ventura Counties, California 1-19 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]