"H" Sites (Miocene of the United States)

Where: San Luis Obispo County, California (35.1° N, 120.0° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 37.6° N, 113.8° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Caliente Formation, Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: C. A. Repenning and J. G. Vedder. 1961. Continental vertebrates and their stratigraphic correlation with marine mollusks, eastern Caliente Range, California. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 424C(235):C-235-C239 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details

PaleoDB collection 19376: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Carnivora - Felidae
Felidae indet. Gray 1821 cat
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
"Pliohippus cf. osborni" = Dinohippus osborni
"Pliohippus cf. osborni" = Dinohippus osborni Frick 1921 horse
 Artiodactyla - Antilocapridae
"Capromeryx altidens" = Texoceros altidens
"Capromeryx altidens" = Texoceros altidens Matthew 1924 pronghorn
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Camelidae indet. Gray 1821 camel
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Leporidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817 rabbit
 Megatherioidea - Megalonychidae
Megalonychidae indet. Gervais 1855 edentate