Pearson Ranch (Bed SS21): Duchesnean, California

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Amynodontidae
Amynodontopsis bodei Stock 1933
Stock 1933 1 specimen
described by Stock 1936c
Mammalia - Praetragulidae
Simimeryx hudsoni Stock 1934
Mammalia - Agriochoeridae
Protoreodon pacificus Golz 1976
Mammalia - Oromerycidae
Protylopus pearsonensis Golz 1976
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:California County:Ventura
Coordinates: 34.3° North, 119.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.7° North, 107.3° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 3
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval:Duchesnean
Age range of interval:39.70000 - 37.00000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Sespe
Local section:SimiV Local bed:33
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Taxonomic list comments:initially reported by Stock 1932b
records of Golz and Lillegraven 1977 omitted by Kelly: Insectivora indet. Rodentia indet. Brontotheriidae indet. ? Triplopus sp.
Metadata
Also known as:CIT 147
Database number:16811
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-02-18 00:00:00 Last modified:2008-11-10 16:37:15
Access level:the public Released:1993-02-18 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

2059. T. S. Kelly. 1990. Biostratigraphy of Uintan and Duchesnean land mammal assemblages from the Middle Member of the Sespe Formation, Simi Valley, California. Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 419:1-42 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]

Secondary references:

28442 G. Calvano, D. R. Prothero, J. Ludtke and E. B. Lander. 2008. Magnetic stratigraphy of the Eocene to Miocene Sespe and Vaqueros formations, Los Angeles and Orange counties, California. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Science Series 41:43-61 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
3256 C. Stock. 1933. An amynodont skull from the Sespe deposits, California. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 19(8):762-767 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]