San Diego Mission (UCMP V-6840): Early/Lower Uintan, California
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Brontotheriidae
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? Metarhinus pater
Stock 1937
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Schiebout 1977 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
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Dilophodon leotanus
(Peterson 1932)
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= Tapiridae indet.
Gray 1821
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Colbert and Schoch 1998 | |||||||||
| unnamed genus of Colbert | ||||||||||
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= Hesperaletes walshi
Colbert 2006
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Colbert 2006 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Protoceratidae
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Leptoreodon major
Golz 1976
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Mammalia
- Sespedectidae
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Crypholestes vaughni
(Novacek 1976)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| Novacek 1976 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
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Rodentia indet.
Bowdich 1821
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| 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 | |||
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 |
| Museum repositories: | UCMP |
Metadata
| Database number: | 16671 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot | Enterer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2019-05-28 18:53:37 |
| 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:
| 54688 | M. W. Colbert. 2006. Hesperaletes (Mammalia : Perissodactyla), a new tapiroid from the middle Eocene of southern California. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26(3):697-711 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot] | |
| 6231 | M. W. Colbert and R. M. Schoch. 1998. Tapiroidea and other moropomorphs. In C. M. Janis, K. M. Scott, and L. L. Jacobs (eds.), Evolution of Tertiary mammals of North America 569-582 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
| 51366 | J. A. Schiebout. 1977. Eocene Perissodactyla From the La Jolla and Poway Groups, San Diego County, California. Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History 18(13):1-13 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot] |