Lawrence Canyon 5: Tortonian, California
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
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aff. Stenodelphis sternbergi
Gregory and Kellogg 1927
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= Odontoceti indet.
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Barnes 1985 | |||||||||
Barnes does not include this specimen in his reference list in Barnes 1985, so it is unclear what this specimen represents. | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Gaviidae
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Gavia sp.
Forster 1788
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Reptilia
- Procellariiformes
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cf. Procellariiformes indet.
Fürbringer 1888
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Domning 1978 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Diomedeidae
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Diomedea sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Reptilia
- Falconidae
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? Falconidae indet.
Vigors 1824
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Reptilia
- Charadriiformes
- Alcidae
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Praemancalla cf. wetmorei
Howard 1976
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Howard 1982 | |||||||||
recombined as Miomancalla wetmorei | ||||||||||
Praemancalla sp.
Howard 1966
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nomen dubium belonging to Mancallinae | ||||||||||
Uria sp.
Brisson 1760
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Uria paleohesperis n. sp.
Howard 1982
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Howard 1982 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
Cepphus sp.
Moehring 1758
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Cepphus olsoni n. sp.
Howard 1982
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Howard 1982 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
? Aethia sp.
Merrem 1788
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Howard 1982 | |||||||||
Aethia sp.
Merrem 1788
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= Aethia barnesi n. sp.
Smith 2014
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Smith 2014 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Sirenia
- Dugongidae
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Hydrodamalis cuestae
Domning 1978
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Otariidae
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Otariinae indet.
Gray 1825
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Odobenidae
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Odobeninae indet.
Allen 1880
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Pliohippus sp.
Marsh 1874
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possibly Dinohippus | ||||||||||
= Equini indet.
Quinn 1955
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Alroy 2011 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Cetotheriidae
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Nannocetus sp.
Kellogg 1929
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Balaenopteridae
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Balaenopteridae indet.
Gray 1864
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Domning 1978 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Camelinae indet.
Gray 1821
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Actinopteri
- Salmoniformes
- Salmonidae
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Smilodonichthys rastrosus
Cavender and Miller 1972
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recombined as Oncorhynchus rastrosus | ||||||||||
Actinopteri
- Labriformes
- Labridae
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cf. Pimelometopon sp.
Gill 1864
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synonym of Semicossyphus | ||||||||||
Actinopteri
- Istiophoriformes
- Istiophoridae
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Istiophoridae indet.
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Chondrichthyes
- Myliobatiformes
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Myliobatoidea indet.
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Lamnidae
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Isurus cf. hastalis
(Agassiz 1838)
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recombined as Carcharodon hastalis | ||||||||||
Carcharodon sulcidens
(Agassiz 1835)
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synonym of Carcharodon carcharias | ||||||||||
Isurus oxyrhynchus
(Rafinesque 1810)
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original and current combination Isurus oxyrinchus | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | California | County: | San Diego |
Coordinates: | 33.2° North, 117.4° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 32.7° North, 114.5° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | unpublished field data | ||||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
Stage: | Tortonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
Key time interval: | Tortonian | ||
Age range of interval: | 11.63000 - 7.24600 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | San Mateo | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | member | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: The San Luis Rey River Local Fauna of the San Mateo Formation is correlative with the early Hemphillian and possibly latest Clarendonian North American Land Mammal Age (Domning and Deméré 1984), and late Tortonian (Europe/Asia), approximately 7–9 Ma. |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | sandstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Environment: | estuary/bay |
Geology comments: estuarine to fluvial |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Museum repositories: | LACM,UCMP |
Taxonomic list comments:San Luis Rey River Local Fauna |
Metadata
Also known as: | LACM 4297, V68147 | ||
Database number: | 50069 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen, J. Alroy | Enterer: | M. Uhen, J. Alroy |
Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2005-05-05 12:37:28 | Last modified: | 2018-07-17 11:11:16 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-05-05 12:37:28 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
13448. | L. G. Barnes, H. Howard, J. H. Hutchison and B. J. Welton. 1981. The vertebrate fossils of the marine Cenozoic San Mateo Formation at Oceanside, California. Geologic Investigations of the Coastal Plain 53-70 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
35631 | J. Alroy. 2011. Further attempts at halting the inevitable backwards progress of bad taxonomy. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
11877 | L. G. Barnes. 1985. Fossil pontoporiid dolphins (Mammalia: Cetacea) from the Pacific Coast of North America. Contributions in Science 363:1-34 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
6029 | 5% 34240 | D. P. Domning. 1978. Sirenian evolution in the North Pacific Ocean. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 118:1-176 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
1369 | D. P. Domning and T. A. Deméré. 1984. New material of Hydrodamalis cuestae (Mammalia: Dugongidae) from the Miocene and Pliocene of San Diego County, California. Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History 20(12):169-188 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] | |
1945 | H. Howard. 1982. Fossil birds from Tertiary marine beds at Oceanside, San Diego County, California, with discriptions of two species of the genera Uria and Cepphus (Aves: Alcidae). Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 341:1-15 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] | |
50949 | N. A. Smith. 2014. The fossil record and phylogeny of the auklets (Pan-Alcidae, Aethiini). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 12(2):217-236 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |