Also known as ETC Windy Ridge; OCPC 2019; Cooper Center 02040; OCPC 2040
Where: Orange County, California (33.8° N, 117.7° W: paleocoordinates 33.0° N, 112.1° W)
When: Sespe Formation, Early/Lower Hemingfordian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)
• Upper ETC Windy Ridge l.f.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: D. P. Whistler and E. B. Lander. 2003. New Late Uintan to Early Hemingfordian Land Mammal Assemblages from the Undifferentiated Sespe and Vaqueros Formations, Orange County, and from the Sespe and Equivalent Marine Formations in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and Ventura Counties, Southern California. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 279:231-268 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 167830: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 04.04.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Cynelos sp. Jourdan 1862 bear-dog | |
Phlaocyon sp., Cynarctoides whistleri n. sp.
Phlaocyon sp. Matthew 1899 bone-crushing dog
Cynarctoides whistleri n. sp. Wang and Tedford 2008 bone-crushing dog | |
Miospermophilus sp. Black 1963 squirrel
Nototamias sp. Pratt and Morgan 1989 squirrel | |
Yatkolamys sp. Martin and Corner 1980 mouse | |
Cuyamalagus dawsoni Hutchison and Lindsay 1974 pika |