Where: San Diego County, California (32.9° N, 117.1° W: paleocoordinates 32.9° N, 116.8° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Huesos/Tapiado Member (Palm Spring Formation), Irvingtonian (1.8 - 0.3 Ma)
• said to be Irvingtonian
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: M. L. Cassiliano. 1999. Biostratigraphy of Blancan and Irvingtonian mammals in the Fish Creek-Vallecito Creek section, southern California, and a review of the Blancan-Irvingtonian boundary. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 19(1):169-186 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 20125: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 21.09.1999, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Megalonyx sp. Harlan 1825 edentate | |
Sylvilagus sp. Gray 1867 cottontail rabbit
Sylvilagus floridanus Allen 1890 eastern cottontail
Sylvilagus hibbardi White 1984 cottontail rabbit | |
Reithrodontomys sp., Baiomys sp., Sigmodon sp., Sigmodon lindsayi, Onychomys sp., Arvicolinae indet.2, "Calomys (Bensonomys) sp." = Bensonomys, Peromyscus sp., Hodomys sp., Mictomys vetus1
Reithrodontomys sp. Giglioli 1874 harvest mouse
Baiomys sp. True 1894 pygmy mouse
Sigmodon sp. Say and Ord 1825 cotton rat
Onychomys sp. Baird 1858 grasshopper mouse
Arvicolinae indet.2 Gray 1821 vole CU 57.8: described by Zakrzewski 1972; present at LACM 1942, 6683, 6814
Peromyscus sp. Gloger 1841 deer mouse | |
Spermophilus sp. Cuvier 1825 ground squirrel | |
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Dipodomys compactus True 1889 Gulf Coast kangaroo rat | |
Tremarctos sp. Gervais 1855 bear | |
"Equus simplicidens" = Plesippus simplicidens, "Equus (Equus) sp." = Equus, "Equus (Dolichohippus) sp." = Equus
"Equus simplicidens" = Plesippus simplicidens Cope 1892 horse
"Equus (Equus) sp." = Equus Linnaeus 1758 horse
"Equus (Dolichohippus) sp." = Equus Linnaeus 1758 horse | |
Odocoileus sp. Rafinesque 1832 New World deer | |
Capromeryx sp. Matthew 1902 pronghorn | |
Titanotylopus sp. Barbour and Schultz 1934 camel
Camelops sp. Leidy 1854 camel
Hemiauchenia sp. Gervais and Ameghino 1880 camel | |
Scapanus sp. Pomel 1848 mole
Scapanus malatinus Hutchison 1987 mole | |
Notiosorex jacksoni Hibbard 1950 gray shrew | |
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