Owl Rock Quarry Prado Plant (Sandy Conglomerate): Hemphillian, California

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
cf. Aphelops sp. Owen 1845
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Pliomastodon sp. Osborn 1926
    = Mammut sp. Blumenbach 1799
Alroy 2002
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:California County:Orange
Coordinates: 33.6° North, 117.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.2° North, 115.3° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Neogene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
*Period:Tertiary *Epoch:Miocene
*Local age/stage:Hemphillian
Key time interval:Hemphillian
Age range of interval:9.40000 - 4.70000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Puente Member:Sycamore Canyon
Local section:OwlRQ Local bed:2
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphy comments: said to be Hemphillian
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Taxonomic list comments:overlies feldspathic sands
Metadata
Database number:19476
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1995-03-26 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:43
Access level:the public Released:1995-03-26 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

2722. A. F. Pajak, III. 1992. San Bernardino County Museum Association Quarterly 39(1) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]