Diamond Valley Lake West Dam (Pleistocene of the United States)

Also known as 95Q10-16.1, 99KK6-11.5, 98CL11-4.1A, 93Q11-18.2, 93Q12-17.1, 98CS8-8.1, 95JB5-10.1, 98CL8-5.1A, 98JAS2-3.

Where: Riverside County, California (33.7° N, 117.1° W: paleocoordinates 33.7° N, 117.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Rancholabrean (0.3 - 0.0 Ma)

• Radiocarbon dating of charred organic material associated with holotype specimen WSC 18743 yielded six calibrated 14C ages that range from

•15.87 ± 0.19 to 16.79 ± 0.28 ka (Springer et al., 2009, 2010).

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. C. Dooley, E. Scott, J. Green, K. B. Springer, B. S. Booley and G. J. Smith. 2019. Mammut pacificus sp. nov., a newly recognized species of mastodon from the Pleistocene of western North America. PeerJ 7:e6614 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 200313: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 28.03.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus columbi Falconer 1857 Columbian mammoth
 Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Mammut sp. Blumenbach 1799 mastodon
Mammut pacificus n. sp. Dooley et al. 2019 mastodon
 Carnivora - Canidae
Urocyon sp. Baird 1857 gray fox
 Theriamorpha - Talpidae
Scapanus sp. Pomel 1848 mole
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Sylvilagus sp. Gray 1867 cottontail rabbit
 Rodentia - Heteromyidae
Dipodomys sp. Gray 1841 kangaroo rat
 Rodentia - Geomyidae
Thomomys sp. Wied-Neuwied 1839 pocket gopher
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Neotoma sp. Say and Ord 1825 pack rat
Microtus sp. Schrank 1798 vole
Aves
 Galliformes - Odontophoridae
Callipepla sp. Wagler 1832 crested quail
Reptilia
 Squamata - Colubridae
Colubridae indet. Oppel 1811 colubrid snake
Amphibia
 Salientia -
Anura indet. Fischer von Waldheim 1813 frog