Kam’s False-cat Locality: Clarendonian - Clarendonian, California
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Nimravidae
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Barbourofelis whitfordi
(Barbour and Cook 1915)
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | California | County: | Kern |
| Coordinates: | 35.4° North, 118.0° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 36.0° North, 115.6° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
| Altitude: | 2880 |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5-6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Clarendonian - Clarendonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 12.50000 - 9.40000 m.y. ago | ||
| Age estimate: | 10.2 (Ar/Ar) to 8.4 (unknown) |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Dove Spring | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Stratigraphically, LACM locality 7704 is slightly above a volcanic ash, Ash 9 (Whistler, 1969; Whistler and Burbank, 1992), which has been 40Ar/39Ar dated to ∼10.2 Ma (early late Miocene; D. Whistler, pers. comm.). |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | tuffaceous mudstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | LACM locality 7704 | ||
| Database number: | 159702 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Marcot | Enterer: | J. Marcot |
| Modifier: | J. Marcot | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2014-08-06 22:14:11 | Last modified: | 2014-08-27 10:54:34 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2014-08-06 22:14:11 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 52163. | Z. J. Tseng, G. T. Takeuchi, and X. Wang. 2010. Discovery of the upper dentition of Barbourofelis whitfordi (Nimravidae, Carnivora) and an evaluation of the genus in California. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(1):244-254 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot] |