Tecolote Canyon (LACM 3243): Early/Lower Uintan, California
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Acreodi
- Mesonychidae
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cf. Harpagolestes sp.
Wortman 1901
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Brontotheriidae
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Brontotheriidae indet.
(Marsh 1873)
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= ? Metarhinus cf. pater
Stock 1937
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Walsh et al. 1996 | |||||||||
| "tentatively" this species | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Ischyromyidae
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Ischyrotomus littoralis n. sp.
Wilson 1949
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Wilson 1949 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| recombined as Pseudotomus littoralis | ||||||||||
| from "Thirty feet stratigraphically below" CIT 314 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | California | County: | San Diego |
| Coordinates: | 32.9° North, 117.1° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 33.1° North, 103.9° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 2-3 | ||
| *Period: | Tertiary | ||
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Uintan | ||
| Age range of interval: | 46.20000 - 39.70000 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: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Museum repositories: | LACM |
| Taxonomic list comments:same as CIT 314-30' at the base of the Genessee Avenue section of Walsh et al. 1996, and said by them to be possibly Scripps Fm. instead of Friars Fm. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 16670 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2019-04-16 15:43:12 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 1681. | D. J. Golz and J. A. Lillegraven. 1977. Summary of known occurrences of terrestrial vertebrates from Eocene strata of southern California. Contributions to Geology, University of Wyoming 15(1):43-65 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] |
Secondary references:
| 3546 | 5% 6300 | S. L. Walsh, D. R. Prothero, and D. J. Lundquist. 1996. Stratigraphy and paleomagnetism of the middle Eocene Friars Formation and Poway Group, southwestern San Diego County, California. In D. R. Prothero and R. J. Emry (eds.), The Terrestrial Eocene-Oligocene Transition in North America 120-154 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] |
| 3694 | R. W. Wilson. 1949. Early Tertiary rodents of North America. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 584(1):67-164 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |