Radec: Blancan, California
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Proboscidea
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Proboscidea indet.
Illiger 1811
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Mammalia
- Megalonychidae
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Xenarthra indet.
(Cope 1889)
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= Megalonyx sp.
Harlan 1825
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Akersten and McDonald 1991 | |||||||||
| apparently identified in earlier publication as "Nothrotheriops" | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Cervidae
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Odocoileus sp.
Rafinesque 1832
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Mammalia
- Antilocapridae
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Tetrameryx sp.
Lull 1921
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Lamini indet.
Webb 1965
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? Camelops sp.
Leidy 1854
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Felidae
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Felis sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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= Felidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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? Lynx sp.
Kerr 1792
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Mustelidae
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Taxidea sp.
Waterhouse 1839
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Canis sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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= Canini indet.
Fischer de Waldheim 1817
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
| size of C. latrans | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Talpidae
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Scapanus sp.
Pomel 1848
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Hutchison 1987 | |||||||||
| possibly a new species | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Hypolagus cf. limnetus
Gazin 1934
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= Hypolagus edensis
Frick 1921
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Pajak, iii et al. 1996 | |||||||||
| consistent with White 1988 | ||||||||||
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Hypolagus cf. regalis
Hibbard 1939
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= Hypolagus vetus
Kellogg 1910
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White 1988 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Sciuridae
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Sciuridae indet.
Gray 1821
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Heteromyidae
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cf. Dipodomys sp.
Gray 1841
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Perognathus sp.
Maximillian 1839
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= Perognathinae indet.
Coues 1875
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Neotoma sp.
Say and Ord 1825
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Cricetinae indet.
Fischer von Waldheim 1817
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Sigmodon sp.
Say and Ord 1825
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| confirmed by Czaplewski 1987 | ||||||||||
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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 | *Local age/stage: | Late/Upper Blancan |
| Key time interval: | Blancan | ||
| Age range of interval: | 4.70000 - 1.40000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Temecula Arkose | ||||
| Local section: | Temec | Local bed: | 1 | ||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: said to be late Blancan | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Museum repositories: | LACM |
| Taxonomic list comments:said to be late Blancan by Golz et al. but early Blancan by Hutchison 1987a; fauna may be mixed according to Pajak et al. 1996 Neotoma ("Pareneotoma") sawrockensis of Repenning and May 1986 from USGS M-1451 is from lower in the section than other material of Golz et al. 1977: Pajak et al. 1996 said to be "10-20 m lower in the section" than Pechanga and Vail Lake | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | LACM 1657; Radec A | ||
| Database number: | 19714 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1994-04-30 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-06-03 03:27:44 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1994-04-30 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 1682. | D. J. Golz, G. T. Jefferson, and M. P. Kennedy. 1977. Late Pliocene vertebrate fossils from the Elsinore fault zone, California. Journal of Paleontology 51(4):864-866 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] |
Secondary references:
| 929 | W. A. Akersten and H. G. McDonald. 1991. Nothrotheriops from the Pleistocene of Oklahoma and paleogeography of the genus. Southwestern Naturalist 36(2):178-185 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
| 6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
| 1993 | J. H. Hutchison. 1987. Moles of the Scapanus latimanus group (Talpidae, Insectivora) from the Pliocene and Pleistocene of California. Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 386:1-15 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/W. Gearty] | |
| 2725 | A. F. Pajak, iii, E. Scott, and C. J. Bell. 1996. A review of the biostratigraphy of Pliocene and Pleistocene sediments in the Elsinore Fault Zone, Riverside County, California. PaleoBios 17(2-4):28-49 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju] | |
| 3632 | J. A. White. 1988. The Archaeolaginae (Mammalia, Lagomorpha) of North America, Excluding Archaeolagus and Panolax. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 7(4):425-450 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju] |