USGS M1218 Sunnyvale Sewer (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Santa Clara County, California (37.4° N, 122.0° W: paleocoordinates 37.3° N, 121.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Marvin Washington and Greg Frantz in 1970; reposited in the USGS

Primary reference: K. C. Maguire and P. A. Holroyd. 2016. Pleistocene vertebrates of Silicon Valley (Santa Clara County, California). PaleoBios 33:1-14 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 183461: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 23.12.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Rodentia - Geomyidae
Thomomys sp.
Thomomys sp. Wied-Neuwied 1839 pocket gopher
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Bison sp.
Bison sp. Hamilton-Smith 1827 bison
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Camelops sp.
Camelops sp. Leidy 1854 camel
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp.
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse
 Carnivora - Ursidae
Ursidae indet.
Ursidae indet. Gray 1825 bear