Azuaga II Site 1 (SDSNH loc. 3410) (Eocene of the United States)

Where: San Diego County, California (32.9° N, 117.1° W: paleocoordinates 33.1° N, 103.9° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Stadium Formation (Poway Group), Early/Lower Uintan (46.2 - 39.7 Ma)

• SDSNH locality 3410, Azuaga, San Diego, California; “Cypress Canyon Unit,” a middle sand- stone member of the Stadium Conglomerate (formerly mapped as the northern exposures of the Mission Valley Formation; see Walsh, 1991), early Uintan.

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. W. Colbert. 2006. Hesperaletes (Mammalia : Perissodactyla), a new tapiroid from the middle Eocene of southern California. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26(3):697-711 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 167543: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 21.03.2015

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Taxonomic list

• originally misassigned to the "Cypress Canyon Unit"; see Walsh 1996b
Mammalia
 Perissodactyla -
Hesperaletes walshi n. sp. Colbert 2006 odd-toed ungulate