Comanche Point (Miocene of the United States)

Also known as UCMP V-5304

Where: Kern County, California (35.3° N, 118.5° W: paleocoordinates 35.2° N, 115.3° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: "Santa Margarita" Formation, Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: D. E. Savage. 1955. Nonmarine Lower Pliocene Sediments in California. A Geochronologic-Stratigraphic Classification. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 31(1):1-26 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 19302: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 30.04.1994

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• at about the 50 m level in the Tejon Hills section of Wilson and Prothero 1997; this level is in the normal polarity zone that underlies the reversed polarity zone including the "North Tejon Hills" fauna sensu lato
Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Gomphotheriidae indet. Hay 1922 gomphothere
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hippotherium sp. Kaup 1832 hipparionine horse