Also known as FTC/Oso; LC 205
Where: Orange County, California (33.6° N, 117.6° W: paleocoordinates 32.2° N, 109.4° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Sespe Formation, late Late Arikareean (29.5 - 18.5 Ma)
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: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 167853: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 04.04.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Phlaocyon taylori Hayes 2000 bone-crushing dog
Leptocyon vulpinus Matthew 1907 canine | |
Nanotragulus ? ordinatus Matthew 1907 ruminant | |
Michenia agatensis Frick and Taylor 1971 camel | |
? Gripholagomys sp. Green 1972 pika | |
Leidymys nematodon Cope 1879 mouse | |
Schizodontomys sp. Rensberger 1973 rodent | |
? Petauristodon sp. Engesser 1979 squirrel
Miospermophilus sp. Black 1963 squirrel | |
Herpetotherium sp. Cope 1873 marsupial |