Santa Rosae Fossil Rodents (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: California (34.0° N, 120.1° W: paleocoordinates 34.0° N, 120.1° W)

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: L. W. van den Hoek Ostende, A. A.E. van der Geer, and C. L. Wijngaarden. 2017. Why are there no giants at the dwarves feet? Insular micromammals in the eastern Mediterranean. Quaternary International 445:269-278 [M. Uhen/A. Levy/A. Levy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 214629: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Andrew Levy on 11.10.2020

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Peromyscus nesodytes Wilson 1936 deer mouse
Microtus miguelensis Guthrie 1998 vole