Murray Canyon: Early/Lower Uintan, California

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Reticulofenestra umbilica (Levin 1965)
Kennedy and Moore 1971
recombined as Reticulofenestra umbilicus
Coccolithophyceae
Discoaster distinctus
Kennedy and Moore 1971
Mammalia - Chiroptera
Chiroptera indet. Blumenbach 1779
a bat
Mammalia - Oromerycidae
cf. Protylopus sp. Wortman 1898
Mammalia - Protoceratidae
Leptoreodon major Golz 1976
Mammalia - Sespedectidae
Crypholestes sp. Novacek 1980
Crypholestes vaughni (Novacek 1976)
Mammalia - Geolabididae
Batodonoides powayensis Novacek 1976
Centetodon sp. Marsh 1872
Mammalia - Rodentia - Ischyromyidae
Eohaplomys sp. Stock 1935
said to be new
Microparamys cf. minutus (Wilson 1937)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Eomyidae
Namatomys sp. Black 1965
    = Metanoiamys agorus Chiment and Korth 1996
Walsh 1997
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuravidae
Pauromys lillegraveni n. sp. Walsh 1997
Walsh 1997
SDSN 3691, also SDSNH 3701, 3731; "P. cf. perditus" (7 measurements)
Sciuravus powayensis Wilson 1940
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cylindrodontidae
Pareumys sp. Peterson 1919
Mammalia - Primates - Omomyidae
Ourayia sp. Gazin 1958
Mammalia - Primates - Microsyopidae
Uintasorex sp. Matthew 1909
Mammalia
Peradectes sp. Matthew and Granger 1921
Peratherium cf. innominatum Simpson 1928
    = Copedelphys cf. innominata Simpson 1928
Alroy 2002
recombined as Herpetotherium innominatum
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:California County:San Diego
Coordinates: 32.8° North, 117.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.0° North, 104.0° 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:Early/Lower Uintan
Age range of interval:46.20000 - 40.40000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Stadium Member:lower
Local section:SDieg Local bed:4
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: conglomerate
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Taxonomic list comments:locality names: 3691 Murray Canyon 1 3692 Murray Canyon 2 3701 Waring Road 3731 Fenton Quarry 3852 Stonecrest Square Site 12
no further information is given on these localities or their individual faunas
Metadata
Also known as:SDSNH 3691, 3692, 3701, 3731, 3852
Database number:16762
Authorizer:J. Alroy, M. Uhen Enterer:J. Alroy, M. Uhen
Modifier:J. Marcot Research group:vertebrate
Created:1997-04-12 00:00:00 Last modified:2020-11-06 14:43:53
Access level:the public Released:1997-04-12 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

3540. S. L. Walsh. 1996. Middle Eocene mammal faunas of San Diego County, California. In D. R. Prothero, R. J. Emry (eds.), The Terrestrial Eocene-Oligocene Transition in North America 74-119 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Mannion]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
3539 M. P. Kennedy and G. W. Moore. 1971. Stratigraphic relations of Upper Cretaceous and Eocene Formations, San Diego coastal area, California. AAPG Bulletin 55(5):709-722 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
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]