Where: Kern County, California (35.4° N, 118.0° W: paleocoordinates 36.0° N, 115.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Dove Spring Formation (Ricardo Group), Late/Upper Clarendonian (12.5 - 9.4 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the LACM
Primary reference: R. A. Stirton and V. L. VanderHoof. 1933. Osteoborus, a New Genus of Dogs, and Its Relations to Borophagus Cope. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences 23(4):175-181 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 188947: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 21.09.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
"Osteoborus ricardoensis n. sp." = Epicyon haydeni
"Osteoborus ricardoensis n. sp." = Epicyon haydeni Leidy 1858 bone-crushing dog |