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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Hesperaletes walshi n. sp.
Hesperaletes walshi n. sp. Colbert 2006 odd-toed ungulate |