San Timoteo: Blancan, California

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Megalonychidae
Megalonyx sp. Harlan 1825
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Pliohippus francescana Frick 1921
    = Equus simplicidens Cope 1892
Alroy 2002
recombined as Plesippus simplicidens
Mammalia - Camelidae
Camelidae indet. Gray 1821
"Pliauchenia?" and "Camelid?"
Mammalia - Cervidae
? Cervidae indet. Gray 1821
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:California County:Riverside
Coordinates: 33.9° North, 117.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.7° North, 116.0° 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:San Timoteo Member:lower
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Taxonomic list comments:possibly relevant:
Sigmodon minor Reynolds and Reynolds 1994a: Blancan of "San Timoteo formation"
Metadata
Database number:19667
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:

1548. C. Frick. 1921. Extinct vertebrate faunas of the badlands of Bautista Creek and San Timoteo Canyon, southern California. University of California Publications in Geology 12(5):277-424 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

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