Half Day Pocket: Uintan, California
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Lacertilia
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Lacertilia indet.
Owen 1842
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Reptilia
- Ophidia
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Ophidia indet.
Latreille 1804
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Mammalia
- Apatemyidae
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Apatemys uintensis
(Matthew 1921)
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
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Miacis sp.
Cope 1872
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(11 measurements) | ||||||||||
= Miacidae indet.
Cope 1880
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
= Lycophocyon hutchisoni
Tomiya 2011
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Tomiya 2011 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Sespedectidae
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Proterixoides sp.
Stock 1935
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Sespedectes singularis
Stock 1935
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= Sespedectes sp.
Stock 1935
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Novacek 1985 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Ischyromyidae
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Ischyromyidae indet.
Alston 1876
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Omomyidae
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Dyseolemur pacificus
Stock 1934
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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 |
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] |