Coso Mountains (CIT 284): 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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Pliomastodon cosoensis n. sp.
Schultz 1937
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= ? Mammut cosoensis
Schultz 1937
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
| god knows what this is | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Plesippus francescana
(Frick 1921)
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= Equus simplicidens
Cope 1892
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
| recombined as Plesippus simplicidens | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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? Tanupolama sp.
Stock 1928
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= ? Hemiauchenia sp.
Gervais and Ameghino 1880
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Borophagus solus
(Stock 1932)
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= Borophagus diversidens
Cope 1892
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
| confirmed by Wang et al. 1999 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | California | County: | Inyo |
| Coordinates: | 36.1° North, 117.9° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 36.2° North, 117.3° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
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
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
Metadata
| Database number: | 19665 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-06-03 03:27:44 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 3086. | J. R. Schultz. 1937. A Late Cenozoic Vertebrate Fauna From the Coso Mountains, Inyo County, California. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 487(3):77-109 [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] |