San Diego Mission (CIT 249-P): Early/Lower Uintan, California

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Protoceratidae
Leptoreodon major n. sp. Golz 1976
see Golz 1976
Mammalia - Carnivora - Miacidae
Miacidae indet. Cope 1880
Mammalia - Sespedectidae
Patriolestes novaceki Walsh 1998
Walsh 1998 1 specimen
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuravidae
Sciuravus powayensis Wilson 1940
Mammalia - Primates - Omomyidae
Stockia powayensis Gazin 1958
Walsh 1997
pers. commun. 17.12.97: "Omomys carteri"
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
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 2-3
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval:Early/Lower Uintan
Age range of interval:46.20000 - 39.70000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:La Jolla Formation:Friars
Stratigraphy comments: undifferentiated
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:16667
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-02-18 00:00:00 Last modified:2019-05-28 18:52:54
Access level:the public Released:1993-02-18 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:

3541 S. L. Walsh. 1997. New specimens of Metanoiamys, Pauromys, and Simimys (Rodentia: Myomorpha) from the Uintan (middle Eocene) of San Diego County, California, and comments on the relationships of selected Paleogene Myomorpha. Proceedings of the San Diego Society of Natural History 32:1-20 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
3542 S. L. Walsh. 1998. Notes on the anterior dentition and skull of Proterixoides (Mammalia: Insectivora: Dormaaliidae), and a new dormaaliid genus from the early Uintan (Middle Eocene) of southern California. Proceedings of the San Diego Society of Natural History 34:1-26 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]