"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
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Mammalia | |
Felidae indet. Gray 1821 cat | |
"Pliohippus cf. osborni" = Dinohippus osborni
"Pliohippus cf. osborni" = Dinohippus osborni Frick 1921 horse | |
"Capromeryx altidens" = Texoceros altidens
"Capromeryx altidens" = Texoceros altidens Matthew 1924 pronghorn | |
Camelidae indet. Gray 1821 camel | |
Leporidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817 rabbit | |
Megalonychidae indet. Gervais 1855 edentate |