Coso Mountains (CIT 131) ( of the United States)

Where: Inyo County, California (36.1° N, 117.9° W: paleocoordinates 36.2° N, 117.3° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Blancan (4.9 - 1.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: J. R. Schultz. 1937. A Late Cenozoic Vertebrate Fauna From the Coso Mountains, Inyo County, California. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 487(3):77-109 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details

PaleoDB collection 19664: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993

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Taxonomic list

• KA dates of 3.14 +/- 0.15 Ma and 2.99 +/- 0.20 Ma for upper part of fm.: Duffield et al. 1980
initially reported by Stock 1932c
Mammalia
 Carnivora - Canidae
Borophagus diversidens1 Cope 1892 bone-crushing dog
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
"Equus simplicidens" = Plesippus simplicidens1
"Equus simplicidens" = Plesippus simplicidens1 Cope 1892 horse
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
? Hemiauchenia sp.1 Gervais and Ameghino 1880 camel
 Artiodactyla - Tayassuidae
Platygonus sp. Leconte 1848 peccary
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Cosomys primus n. sp. Wilson 1932 vole
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Pewelagus dawsonae2 White 1984 rabbit
from "Coso Mountains"; presumably includes "Hypolagus nr. limnetus" and/or "H. sp." small