Where: San Diego County, California (32.9° N, 117.1° W: paleocoordinates 32.9° N, 116.8° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Huesos/Tapiado Member (Palm Spring Formation), Irvingtonian (1.8 - 0.3 Ma)
• said to be Irvingtonian
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: M. L. Cassiliano. 1999. Biostratigraphy of Blancan and Irvingtonian mammals in the Fish Creek-Vallecito Creek section, southern California, and a review of the Blancan-Irvingtonian boundary. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 19(1):169-186 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 20125: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 21.09.1999, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
"Equus (Equus) sp." = Equus, "Equus (Dolichohippus) sp." = Equus, "Equus simplicidens" = Plesippus simplicidens
"Equus (Equus) sp." = Equus Linnaeus 1758 horse
"Equus (Dolichohippus) sp." = Equus Linnaeus 1758 horse
"Equus simplicidens" = Plesippus simplicidens Cope 1892 horse | |
Hemiauchenia sp. Gervais and Ameghino 1880 camel
Camelops sp. Leidy 1854 camel
Titanotylopus sp. Barbour and Schultz 1934 camel | |
Capromeryx sp. Matthew 1902 pronghorn | |
Odocoileus sp. Rafinesque 1832 New World deer | |
Tremarctos sp. Gervais 1855 bear | |
Scapanus sp. Pomel 1848 mole
Scapanus malatinus Hutchison 1987 mole | |
Notiosorex jacksoni Hibbard 1950 gray shrew | |
Sylvilagus sp. Gray 1867 cottontail rabbit
Sylvilagus hibbardi White 1984 cottontail rabbit
Sylvilagus floridanus Allen 1890 eastern cottontail | |
Spermophilus sp. Cuvier 1825 ground squirrel | |
Hodomys sp., Baiomys sp., Arvicolinae indet.2, Onychomys sp., Mictomys vetus1, Sigmodon sp., Sigmodon lindsayi, Reithrodontomys sp., "Calomys (Bensonomys) sp." = Bensonomys, Peromyscus sp.
Baiomys sp. True 1894 pygmy mouse
Arvicolinae indet.2 Gray 1821 vole CU 57.8: described by Zakrzewski 1972; present at LACM 1942, 6683, 6814
Onychomys sp. Baird 1858 grasshopper mouse
Sigmodon sp. Say and Ord 1825 cotton rat
Reithrodontomys sp. Giglioli 1874 harvest mouse
Peromyscus sp. Gloger 1841 deer mouse | |
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Dipodomys compactus True 1889 Gulf Coast kangaroo rat | |
Megalonyx sp. Harlan 1825 edentate | |
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