"C" Sites (Miocene of the United States)

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

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Pliohippus cf. tehonensis Merriam 1915 horse
"Pliohippus leardi" = Dinohippus leardi Drescher 1941 horse
 Carnivora - Felidae
Felidae indet. Gray 1821 cat