Tapo Canyon (LACM 6592) (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Ventura County, California (34.3° N, 119.0° W: paleocoordinates 35.0° N, 104.9° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Sespe Formation, Eocene (56.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the LACM

Primary reference: T. S. Kelly and D. P. Whistler. 1994. Additional Uintan and Duchesnean (Middle and Late Eocene) mammals from the Sespe Formation, Simi Valley, California. Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 439:1-29 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 16816: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Rodentia - Ischyromyidae
? Leptotomus sp. Matthew 1910 rodent