Where: San Luis Obispo County, California (35.1° N, 120.0° W: paleocoordinates 34.4° N, 115.6° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Caliente Formation, Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)
• beds are a lateral equivalent of the Branch Canyon Fm.
•associated with a "middle Miocene marine mollusk fauna"
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: C. A. Repenning and J. G. Vedder. 1961. Continental vertebrates and their stratigraphic correlation with marine mollusks, eastern Caliente Range, California. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 424C(235):C-235-C239 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 19196: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
•Barstovian taxa of unknown provenance from Repenning and Vedder 1961: Merychippus brevidontus "Dyseohyus sp." Camelidae indet. ("? Protolabis sp.") "Dromomeryx sp. or Rakomeryx sp."
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Tomarctus brevirostris Cope 1873 bone-crushing dog | |
"Merychippus sumani" = Scaphohippus sumani, Archaeohippus mourningi
"Merychippus sumani" = Scaphohippus sumani Merriam 1915 horse
Archaeohippus mourningi Merriam 1913 anchitheriine horse | |