Where: Contra Costa County, California (37.8° N, 122.1° W: paleocoordinates 37.2° N, 118.4° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Orinda Formation, Clarendonian (12.5 - 9.4 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the UCMP
Primary reference: R. A. Stirton. 1939. Cenozoic Mammal Remains From the San Francisco Bay Region. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences 24(13):339-410 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 19418: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.03.1995
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
"Trilophodon simpsoni n. sp." = Gomphotherium obscurum
"Trilophodon simpsoni n. sp." = Gomphotherium obscurum Leidy 1869 mastodon |