Where: San Luis Obispo County, California (35.1° N, 120.0° W: paleocoordinates 34.5° N, 116.2° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Caliente Formation, Clarendonian (12.5 - 9.4 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; 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 19310: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Pliohippus cf. tehonensis, "Pliohippus leardi" = Dinohippus leardi
Pliohippus cf. tehonensis Merriam 1915 horse
"Pliohippus leardi" = Dinohippus leardi Drescher 1941 horse | |
Felidae indet. Gray 1821 cat |