PBDB Collection

Kern River: Clarendonian, California

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae

	Neohipparion sp. Gidley 1903	Tedford et al. 1987
	"of the N. eurystyle group"

	Pliohippus sp. Marsh 1874	Stock 1935
	from "Kern River Pliocene"; dp2-4, apparently indeterminate; not clear if this is "P. sp." of Tedford et al. 1987
	= Equini indet. Quinn 1955	Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Tayassuidae

	Prosthennops kernensis n. sp. Colbert 1938	Colbert 1938
	CIT 49 and 50
Mammalia - Palaeomerycidae

	Cranioceras (Yumaceras) sp. Matthew 1918	Tedford et al. 1987
	= Pediomeryx sp. Stirton 1936	Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Carnivora - Procyonidae

	Bassariscus antiquus Matthew and Cook 1909	Hall 1930
	CIT 49
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae

	Brachypsalis angustidens n. sp. Hall 1930	Hall 1930
	recombined as Mionictis angustidens
	CIT 49 (1 measurement)

	Eomellivora cf. wimani Zdansky 1924	Stock and Hall 1933
	"Kern River... Kern County"
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae

	Vulpes kernensis n. sp. Tedford et al. 2009	Miller 1931
	CIT 49

	Metalopex merriami Tedford and Wang 2008	Tedford and Wang 2008
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae

	Hypolagus sp. Dice 1917
	(small)
	= Leporidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817	Alroy 2002

	Hypolagus aff. limnetus Gazin 1934
	"Hypolagus nr. limnetus"
	= Hypolagus edensis Frick 1921	White 1988
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae

	? Citellus sp. Oken 1816
	= Citellus argonautus Stirton and Goeriz 1942	Black 1963
	recombined as Citellus (Otospermophilus) argonautus
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae

	Peromyscus pliocenicus n. sp. Wilson 1937
	recombined as Basirepomys pliocenicus
	(2 measurements)
Reptilia - Accipitriformes - Accipitridae

	? Parabuteo sp. Ridgway 1874	Miller 1931
see common names

Geography

Country:	United States	State/province:	California	County:	Kern
Coordinates:	35.3° North, 118.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	35.2° North, 114.3° West
Basis of coordinate:	based on political unit
Geographic resolution:	small collection

Time

Period:	Neogene	Epoch:	Miocene
10 m.y. bin:	Cenozoic 5-6
*Period:	Tertiary
Key time interval:	Clarendonian
Age range of interval:	12.50000 - 9.40000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields

Stratigraphy

Formation:

Kern River

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
Taxonomic list comments:Wilson's list omits large mammals and no full faunal list is available

Metadata

Also known as:	CIT 49
Database number:	19393
Authorizer:	J. Alroy, M. Uhen, J. Marcot	Enterer:	J. Alroy, J. Marcot, M. Uhen
Modifier:	J. Marcot	Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	1993-09-27 00:00:00	Last modified:	2020-11-06 14:15:54
Access level:	the public	Released:	1993-09-27 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:	CC BY

Reference information

Primary reference:

3684.

R. W. Wilson. 1937. New middle Pliocene rodent and lagomorph faunas from Oregon and California. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 487(1):2-19 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/C. Bell]

Secondary references:

6294		J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
1082	5% 42280	C. C. Black. 1963. A review of the North American Tertiary Sciuridae. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 130(3):109-248 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Head]
1252		E. H. Colbert. 1938. Pliocene peccaries from the Pacific Coast region of North America. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 487(6):241-269 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]
1769		E. R. Hall. 1930. Three New Genera of Mustelidae from the Later Tertiary of North America. Journal of Mammalogy 11(1):146-155 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]
75128		L. Miller. 1931. Bird remains from the Kern River Pliocene of California. The Condor 33:70-72 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
3272		C. Stock. 1935. Deep-well record of fossil mammal remains in California. Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists 19(7):1064-1068 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]
3291		C. Stock and E. R. Hall. 1933. The asiatic genus Eomellivora in the Pliocene of California. Journal of Mammalogy 14(1):63-65 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
6198		R. H. Tedford, T. Galusha, M. F. Skinner, B. E. Taylor, R. W. Fields, J. R. Macdonald, J. M. Rensberger, S. D. Webb, and D. P. Whistler. 1987. Faunal succession and biochronology of the Arikareean through Hemphillian interval (late Oligocene through earliest Pliocene epochs) in North America. In M. O. Woodburne (ed.), Cenozoic Mammals of North America: Geochronology and Biostratigraphy 153-210 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Wagner]
52061		R. H. Tedford and X. Wang. 2008. Metalopex, a new genus of fox (Carnivora: Canidae: Vulpini) from the late Miocene of western North America. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Science Series 41:273-278 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot/J. Marcot]
52058		R. H. Tedford, X. Wang, and B. E. Taylor. 2009. Phylogenetic Systematics of the North American Fossil Caninae (Carnivora: Canidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 325:1-218 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot/G. Lloyd]
3632		J. A. White. 1988. The Archaeolaginae (Mammalia, Lagomorpha) of North America, Excluding Archaeolagus and Panolax. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 7(4):425-450 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]