Nutmeg (SBCM 05.006.083): Blancan, California

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Leporidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Paraneotoma fossilis
    = Neotoma fossilis Gidley 1922
Alroy 2002
Sigmodon sp. Say and Ord 1825
Mammalia - Rodentia - Heteromyidae
? Dipodomys sp. Gray 1841
Perognathus sp. Maximillian 1839
    = Perognathinae indet. Coues 1875
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Talpidae
? Scapanus sp. Pomel 1848
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:California County:Riverside
Coordinates: 33.9° North, 117.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.7° North, 116.0° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
*Period:Tertiary *Epoch:Pliocene
*Local age/stage:Late/Upper Blancan
Key time interval:Blancan
Age range of interval:4.70000 - 1.40000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:"unnamed sandstone"
Local section:Temec Local bed:1
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphy comments: said to be late Blancan
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection size:52 specimens
Taxonomic list comments:NISP 52
Metadata
Database number:19725
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1999-09-21 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:44
Access level:the public Released:1999-09-21 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

2725. A. F. Pajak, iii, E. Scott, and C. J. Bell. 1996. A review of the biostratigraphy of Pliocene and Pleistocene sediments in the Elsinore Fault Zone, Riverside County, California. PaleoBios 17(2-4):28-49 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]