Dove Spring (Middle): Clarendonian, California

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Heteromyidae
Perognathus minutus James 1963
Cupidinimus sp. Wood 1935
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Copemys dentalis (Hall 1930)
original and current combination Peromyscus dentalis
Paronychomys sp. Jacobs 1977
Mammalia - Soricidae
"Sorex" sp. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Talpidae
Scapanus shultzi Tedford 1961
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Peraceras superciliosum (Cope 1880)
Prothero 2005
original and current combination Peraceras superciliosus
"Dove Spring Formation, Ricardo Group"
Teleoceras meridianum (Leidy 1865)
Prothero 2005
"Dove Spring Formation, Ricardo Group"
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparion forcei Richey 1948
Cormohipparion occidentale (Leidy 1856)
Dinohippus cf. leardi (Drescher 1941)
Mammalia - Antilocapridae
Plioceros sp. Frick 1937
Mammalia - Merycoidodontidae
Ustatochoerus californicus (Merriam 1919)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Nimravidae
Barbourofelis osborni (Merriam 1919)
synonym of Barbourofelis whitfordi
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mephitidae
Martinogale sp. Hall 1930
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Caninae indet. Gill 1872
Leptocyon vafer (Leidy 1858)
Osteoborus diabloensis Richey 1938
synonym of Borophagus littoralis
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Serbelodon burnhami Osborn 1933
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:California County:Kern
Coordinates: 35.3° North, 118.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.2° North, 114.3° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval:Clarendonian
Age range of interval:13.60000 - 10.30000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Dove Spring
Local section:DoveS Local bed:5
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Taxonomic list comments:basal Mbr. 6; lower "Paronychomys/O. diabloensis" zone
ash at 1400 m, within this zone, dated at 8.5 +/- 0.13 Ma (KA); ash at 1420 m dated at 8.4 +/- 1.8 Ma (FT on zircon); more precise date should be used, and in fact is accepted by Perkins et al. 1998
Metadata
Database number:19323
Authorizer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot Enterer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-02-18 00:00:00 Last modified:2009-12-20 13:08:20
Access level:the public Released:1993-02-18 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

3627. D. P. Whistler and D. W. Burbank. 1992. Miocene biostratigraphy and biochronology of the Dove Spring Formation, Mojave Desert, California, and characterization of the Clarendonian mammal age (late Miocene) in California. Geological Society America Bulletin 104(6):644-658 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
51726 D. R. Prothero. 2005. The Evolution of North American Rhinoceroses. 1-218 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]