Cooper Center 02019 (Miocene of the United States)

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
 Carnivora - Amphicyonidae
Cynelos sp. Jourdan 1862 bear-dog
 Carnivora - Canidae
Phlaocyon sp. Matthew 1899 bone-crushing dog
Cynarctoides whistleri n. sp. Wang and Tedford 2008 bone-crushing dog
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
Miospermophilus sp. Black 1963 squirrel
Nototamias sp. Pratt and Morgan 1989 squirrel
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Yatkolamys sp. Martin and Corner 1980 mouse
 Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
Cuyamalagus dawsoni Hutchison and Lindsay 1974 pika