Where: San Diego County, California (33.1° N, 117.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.4° N, 104.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: C Member (Santiago Formation), Uintan (46.2 - 39.7 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: S. L. Walsh. 1996. Middle Eocene mammal faunas of San Diego County, California. In D. R. Prothero, R. J. Emry (eds.), The Terrestrial Eocene-Oligocene Transition in North America 74-119 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 16547: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 12.04.1997, edited by Jonathan Marcot
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
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Simidectes cf. medius Peterson 1919 mesonychian | |
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Leptoreodon sp. Wortman 1898 protoceratid | |
Protylopus stocki Golz 1976 even-toed ungulate | |
Hesperaletes borineyi n. sp.1
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cf. Proterixoides sp. Stock 1935 placental |