PBDB Collection

Tecuya Canyon: Arikareean, California
collected by B. L. Clark, E. L. Furlong, C. Stock 1918

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Mammalia - Merycoidodontidae

	Promerycochoerus erythroceps n. sp. Stock 1932	Stock 1932
	synonym of Desmatochoerus hatcheri
	from CIT loc. 116: presumably this is "Mesoreodon sp." of Demere 1988
Mammalia - Hypertragulidae

	Hypertragulus sp. Cope 1874
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae

	Miohippus sp. Marsh 1874	Stirton 1960
	or Parahippus sp.
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae

	Diceratherium sp. Marsh 1875
	"Caenopus or Diceratherium"
Mammalia - Carnivora - Amphicyonidae

	Daphoenus ruber n. sp. Stock 1932	Stock 1932
	repeated by Tedford et al. 1987; "D. sp." of Demere 1988 (1 measurement)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae

	Leidymys sp. Wood 1936	Deméré 1988
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae

	Sciuridae indet. Gray 1821
	= Sciurus tecuyensis n. sp. Bryant 1945	Bryant 1945
	UCMP 23611
	= Protosciurus tecuyensis Bryant 1945	Black 1963
	replaces ID of Demere; "Sciuridae indet." DUPLICATE REF 1081 or 1082
see common names

Geography

Country:	United States	State/province:	California	County:	Kern
Coordinates:	34.9° North, 119.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	33.5° North, 110.8° West
Basis of coordinate:	estimated from map

Time


10 m.y. bin:	Cenozoic 4-5
*Period:	Tertiary	*Epoch:	Oligocene
Key time interval:	Arikareean
Age range of interval:	29.50000 - 18.50000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields

Stratigraphy

Formation:

Tecuya

Lithology and environment

Primary lithology:	not reported
Environment:	terrestrial indet.

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:	body
Size of fossils:	macrofossils
Articulated whole bodies:	none
Associated major elements:	none

Collection methods and comments

Reason for describing collection:	general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:	UCMP
Collectors:	B. L. Clark, E. L. Furlong, C. Stock	Collection dates:	1918
Taxonomic list comments:dates of 21.5 (22.1) +/- 0.7 and 22.3 (22.9) +/- 0.7 Ma (K-Ar) are much higher in section and therefore probably not relevant initially reported by Stock 1920, who gives locality data

Metadata

Also known as:	Tecuja Cañon; UCMP 3352, 3353, 3354, 3356, CIT
Database number:	17701
Authorizer:	J. Alroy, M. Uhen, J. Marcot	Enterer:	J. Alroy, J. Marcot, M. Uhen
Modifier:	J. Marcot	Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	1993-02-18 00:00:00	Last modified:	2018-03-06 15:32:57
Access level:	the public	Released:	1993-02-18 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:	CC BY

Reference information

Primary reference:

3243.

C. Stock. 1920. An early Tertiary vertebrate fauna from the southern coast ranges of California. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geology 12(4):267-276 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

6294		J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
1081		C. C. Black. 1963. Miocene rodents from the Thomas Farm local fauna, Florida. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 128(11) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
64933		M. D. Bryant. 1945. Phylogeny of Nearctic Sciuridae. American Midland Naturalist 33(2):257-390 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]
1359		T. A. Deméré. 1988. SEPM Pacific Section Symposium 58 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
64855		R. A. Stirton. 1960. A marine carnivore from the Clallam Miocene Formation Washington. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 36(7):345-368 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
3251		C. Stock. 1932. Additions to the Mammalian Fauna From the Tecuya Beds, California. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 418(4):87-92 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]