Vedder (UCMP V-6761) (Miocene of the United States)
Where: Santa Barbara County, California (34.9° N, 119.5° W: paleocoordinates 34.0° N, 113.9° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Branch Canyon Formation, Hemingfordian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Reposited in the UCMP
Primary reference: J. H. Hutchison and E. H. Lindsay. 1974. The Hemingfordian mammal fauna of the Vedder Locality, Branch Canyon Formation, Santa Barbara, California. Part I. Insectivora, Chiroptera, Lagomorpha, and Rodentia (Sciuridae). PaleoBios 15:1-19 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]more details
PaleoDB collection 19599: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.03.1995
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• unit is equivalent to the "lower" Caliente Fm. but exact correlation with San Luis Obispo and Ventura Co. sections is not clear; placed below the Lowest Triple Basalt at the level of CIT 315 by Tedford et al. 1987 on apparently strictly biochronological grounds
generically determinate NISP 238
material of "Blackia sp." of Lindsay 1974 (NISP 2) could be Petauristodon: Skwara 1986
generically determinate NISP 238
material of "Blackia sp." of Lindsay 1974 (NISP 2) could be Petauristodon: Skwara 1986
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"? Phyllostomatidae indet." = Phyllostomidae
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Scalopoides sp. Wilson 1960 mole | |
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cf. Limnoecus sp. Stirton 1930 shrew | |
Cuyamalagus dawsoni n. sp.
Cuyamalagus dawsoni n. sp. Hutchison and Lindsay 1974 pika | |
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Miospermophilus sp. Black 1963 squirrel | |
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