Asphalto Number 2: Blancan, California
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Mammutidae
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Mammut americanum
(Kerr 1792)
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= Mammut pacificus
Dooley et al. 2019
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Dooley et al. 2019 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Borophagus pachyodon n. sp.
(Merriam 1903)
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= Borophagus diversidens
Cope 1892
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
| see Richey 1979, Wang et al. 1999 DUPLICATE REF 2018 or 2019 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Felidae
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Ischyrosmilus sp.
Merriam 1918
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= Machaerodus ? ischyrus
Merriam 1905
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Merriam 1905 | |||||||||
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= Homotherium sp.
Fabrini 1890
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Felis concolor
Linnaeus 1771
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= Puma concolor
Linnaeus 1771
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus occidentalis
Leidy 1865
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| synonym of Equus (Hesperohippus) mexicanus | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Lama stevensi n. sp.
Merriam and Stock 1925
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Merriam and Stock 1925 | |||||||||
| synonym of Hemiauchenia macrocephala | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | California | County: | Kern |
| Coordinates: | 35.3° North, 118.5° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 35.3° North, 117.5° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| *Period: | Tertiary | *Epoch: | Pliocene |
| Key time interval: | Blancan | ||
| Age range of interval: | 4.70000 - 1.40000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | ? Tulare |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| 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:original list given by Matthew and Stirton 1930a "? Blancan and or in part Irvingtonian and Rancholabrean"; "probably Blancan" according to Kurten and Anderson 1980 "Platygonus sp." is listed by Matthew and Stirton 1930a but omitted by Jefferson | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | UCMP 4096; UCMP V-78041; McKittrick | ||
| Database number: | 19663 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot, M. Uhen | Enterer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot, M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1994-06-07 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2021-04-12 10:22:59 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1994-06-07 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 2018. | G. T. Jefferson. 1991. A catalogue of late Quaternary Vertebrates from California: Part Two, Mammals. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Technical Reports 7:1-129 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Holroyd] |
Secondary references:
| 6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
| 35474 | A. C. Dooley, E. Scott, J. Green, K. B. Springer, B. S. Booley and G. J. Smith. 2019. Mammut pacificus sp. nov., a newly recognized species of mastodon from the Pleistocene of western North America. PeerJ 7:e6614 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 52431 | J. C. Merriam. 1905. A New Sabre-Tooth From California. University of California Publications Bulletin of the Department of Geology 4(9):171-175 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot] | |
| 58947 | J. C. Merriam and C. Stock. 1925. A Llama From the Pleistocene of McKittrick, California. Contributions to Palaeontology from the Carnegie Institution of Washington 347:37-42 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot] |