Mission San Jose, east: Serravallian - Tortonian, California
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Desmostylidae
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | California | County: | Alameda |
| Coordinates: | 37.6° North, 121.9° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 40.0° North, 116.8° West (Wright 2013) | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Serravallian - Tortonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 - Cenozoic 6 |
| *Period: | Tertiary | *Epoch: | Pliocene |
| Key time interval: | Serravallian - Tortonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 13.82 - 7.246 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Associated major elements: | all |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | YPM |
Metadata
| Database number: | 13093 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2002-01-21 07:53:41 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-01-21 07:53:41 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 4363. | 5% 51060 | O. C. Marsh. 1888. Notice of a new fossil sirenian, from California. American Journal of Science 25(8):94-96 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
| 12966 | D. P. Domning. 1996. Bibliography and Index of the Sirenia and Desmostylia. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 80:1-611 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 52149 | V. L. VanderHoof. 1937. A study of the Miocene sirenian Desmostylus. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 24(8):169-262 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |