Cajon Valley (LACM L.400) (Miocene to of the United States)
Where: San Bernardino County, California (34.8° N, 117.0° W: paleocoordinates 34.0° N, 111.7° W)
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• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Unit 5 Member (Punchbowl Formation), Hemingfordian to Hemingfordian (20.4 - 13.6 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Reposited in the LACM
Primary reference: M. O. Woodburne and D. J. Golz. 1972. Stratigraphy of the Punchbowl Formation, Cajon Valley, southern California. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 92:1-72 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details
PaleoDB collection 19235: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 27.09.1993, edited by Evangelos Vlachos
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Taxonomic list
• see fig. 10 for stratigraphic position
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Reptilia | |
"Gopherus dehiscus n. sp." = Gopherus depressus
"Gopherus dehiscus n. sp." = Gopherus depressus Brattstrom 1961 gopher tortoise LACM 400(26)/5178 (holotype), the internal cast of a shell (Des Lauriers 1965, fig. 1)
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Mammalia | |
Archaeohippus mourningi, "Merychippus cf. intermontanus" = Scaphohippus intermontanus
Archaeohippus mourningi Merriam 1913 anchitheriine horse
"Merychippus cf. intermontanus" = Scaphohippus intermontanus Merriam 1915 horse | |
Rhinocerotidae indet. Gray 1821 rhinoceros | |
Aepycamelus cf. alexandrae Davidson 1923 camel | |
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Blastomerycinae indet. Frick 1937 musk deer | |
Pseudoparablastomeryx cf. scotti Frick 1937 ruminant |