Chili Gulch: Whitneyan, California
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Rhinoceros hesperius n. sp.
Leidy 1865
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Stock 1920 | ||||||
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= Diceratherium sp.
Marsh 1875
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Stock 1933 | ||||||
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= Subhyracodon kewi
Stock 1933
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Prothero 2005 | ||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | California | County: | Calaveras |
| Coordinates: | 38.2° North, 120.7° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 38.0° North, 109.6° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Oligocene |
| Stage: | Rupelian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 4 |
| *Period: | Tertiary | ||
| Key time interval: | Whitneyan | ||
| Age range of interval: | 31.80000 - 29.50000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some genera |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:age assignment unclear | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 17321 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot | Enterer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot |
| Modifier: | J. Marcot | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2002-05-15 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2018-03-04 19:17:05 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-05-15 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 3257. | C. Stock. 1933. Perissodactyla from the Sespe of the Las Posas Hills, California. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 440(3):14-27 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
| 6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
| 51726 | D. R. Prothero. 2005. The Evolution of North American Rhinoceroses. 1-218 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot] | |
| 3243 | C. Stock. 1920. An early Tertiary vertebrate fauna from the southern coast ranges of California. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geology 12(4):267-276 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |