Sun Valley (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Los Angeles County, California (34.2° N, 118.4° W: paleocoordinates 34.2° N, 118.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Rancholabrean (0.3 - 0.0 Ma)

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 200331: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 28.03.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Mammut pacificus Dooley et al. 2019 mastodon