Half Day Pocket: Uintan, California

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Lacertilia
Lacertilia indet. Owen 1842
Reptilia - Ophidia
Ophidia indet. Latreille 1804
Mammalia - Apatemyidae
Apatemys uintensis (Matthew 1921)
Mammalia - Carnivora
Miacis sp. Cope 1872
(11 measurements)
    = Miacidae indet. Cope 1880
Alroy 2002
    = Lycophocyon hutchisoni Tomiya 2011
Tomiya 2011
Mammalia - Sespedectidae
Proterixoides sp. Stock 1935
Sespedectes singularis Stock 1935
    = Sespedectes sp. Stock 1935
Novacek 1985
Mammalia - Rodentia - Ischyromyidae
Ischyromyidae indet. Alston 1876
Mammalia - Primates - Omomyidae
Dyseolemur pacificus Stock 1934
Rasmussen et al. 1995
UCMP specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:California County:San Diego
Coordinates: 32.9° North, 117.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.1° North, 103.9° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Lutetian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 2
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval:Uintan
Age range of interval:46.20000 - 40.40000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Santiago
Local section:Sntgo Local bed:2
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Museum repositories:UCMP
Metadata
Also known as:UCMP V-6885
Database number:16573
Authorizer:J. Alroy, P. Holroyd Enterer:J. Alroy, P. Holroyd
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1994-04-30 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:41
Access level:the public Released:1994-04-30 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

1681. D. J. Golz and J. A. Lillegraven. 1977. Summary of known occurrences of terrestrial vertebrates from Eocene strata of southern California. Contributions to Geology, University of Wyoming 15(1):43-65 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
2665 M. J. Novacek. 1985. The Sespedectinae, a new subfamily of hedgehog-like insectivores. American Museum Novitates 2822:1-24 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/K. Beard]
2836 D. T. Rasmussen, M. Shekelle, S. L. Walsh and B. O. Riney. 1995. The dentition of Dyseolemur, and comments on the use of the anterior teeth in primate systematics. Journal of Human Evolution 29(4):301-320 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
42169 S. Tomiya. 2011. A new basal caniform (Mammalia: Carnivora) from the middle Eocene of North America and remarks on the phylogeny of early carnivorans. PLoS ONE 6(9):e24146 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]