Jackrabbit Trail (Site 195): Blancan, California

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Sylvilagus hibbardi White 1984
1 specimen
Hypolagus edensis Frick 1921
Albright 1999 1 specimen
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Neotoma fossilis Gidley 1922
12 specimens
(6 measurements)
Reithrodontomys sp. Giglioli 1874
Albright 1999 1 specimen
4 specimens
synonym of Mimomys
"Mimomys (Ophiomys) taylori-parvus"
Peromyscus hagermanensis Hibbard 1962
11 specimens
Peromyscus maximus n. sp. Albright 1999
Albright 1999 2 specimens
Sigmodon medius Gidley 1922
9 specimens
synonym of Sigmodon minor
large-sized "S. minor" (4 measurements)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Geomyidae
Thomomys gidleyi Wilson 1933
15 specimens
(6 measurements)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Heteromyidae
Perognathus sp. Maximillian 1839
1 specimen
    = Perognathinae indet. Coues 1875
Albright 1999
sp. C
Dipodomys sp. Gray 1841
Albright 1999 1 specimen
sp. A
Mammalia - Rodentia - Erethizontidae
Erethizon ? cascoensis (White 1970)
1 specimen
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Plesippus idahoensis (Merriam 1918)
2 specimens
Mammalia - Soricidae
Sorex leahyi Hibbard 1956
2 specimens
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
Time
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
*Period:Tertiary *Epoch:Pliocene
Key time interval:Blancan
Age range of interval:4.70000 - 1.40000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:San Timoteo Member:Unit 4
Local section:JackR Local bed:195
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection size:62 specimens
Taxonomic list comments:replaces "Jackrabbit Trail" list of Hehn et al. 1996
there is no discussion of Frick's "San Timoteo" fauna, but it certainly is lower in the section than this locality
generically identifiable NISP 62
Metadata
Database number:19737
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2000-05-19 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:44
Access level:the public Released:2000-05-19 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

938. L. B. Albright. 1999. Magnetostratigraphy and biochronology of the San Timoteo Badlands, southern California, with implications for local Pliocene–Pleistocene tectonic and depositional patterns. Geological Society America Bulletin 111(9):1265-1293 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]

Secondary references:

939 L. B. Albright. 1999. Biostratigraphy and Vertebrate Paleontology of the San Timoteo Badlands, Southern California. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 144:1-121 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]