Vallecito Creek (CU 54): Blancan, California

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Lynx rufus (Schreber 1777)
Felis lacustris Gazin 1933
    = Puma lacustris Gazin 1933
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Trigonictis macrodon (Cope 1868)
see Anderson 1984
Lutra canadensis (Schreber 1776)
    = Lontra canadensis Schreber 1776
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Urocyon sp. Baird 1857
    = Urocyon galushai Tedford et al. 2009
Tedford et al. 2009
Canis sp. Linnaeus 1758
Canis latrans Say 1823
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Equus (Equus) sp. Linnaeus 1758
Equus (Dolichohippus) sp. (Heller 1912)
synonym of Equus
Equus enormis Downs and Miller 1994
probably includes type of Downs and Miller 1994 from zone 54; record actually shown at about level of CU 52 by Cassiliano
Mammalia - Camelidae
Titanotylopus sp. Barbour and Schultz 1934
Camelops sp. Leidy 1854
Hemiauchenia sp. Gervais and Ameghino 1880
Mammalia - Tayassuidae
Platygonus sp. Leconte 1848
Mammalia - Cervidae
Cervus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Odocoileus sp. Rafinesque 1832
Mammalia - Talpidae
Scapanus malatinus Hutchison 1987
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Spermophilus sp. Cuvier 1825
Mammalia - Rodentia - Heteromyidae
Dipodomys compactus True 1889
Mammalia - Rodentia - Geomyidae
Geomys sp. Rafinesque 1817
    = Geomyidae indet. Bonaparte 1845
Alroy 2002
Geomys garbanii White and Downs 1961
    = Nerterogeomys garbanii White and Downs 1961
Alroy 2002
Geomys anzensis Becker and White 1981
    = Nerterogeomys anzensis Becker and White 1981
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Sigmodon sp. Say and Ord 1825
Hodomys sp. Merriam 1894
"Neotoma (Hodomys) sp."
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Sylvilagus hibbardi White 1984
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:California County:San Diego
Coordinates: 32.9° North, 117.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.7° North, 116.1° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
*Period:Tertiary *Epoch:Pliocene
*Local age/stage:Blancan
Key time interval:Blancan
Age range of interval:4.90000 - 1.80000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Palm Spring Member:Huesos/Tapiado
Local section:FCVC Local bed:3509
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphy comments: said to be Blancan
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:20122
Authorizer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot Enterer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:1999-09-21 00:00:00 Last modified:2007-09-06 21:00:48
Access level:the public Released:1999-09-21 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

1186. M. L. Cassiliano. 1999. Biostratigraphy of Blancan and Irvingtonian mammals in the Fish Creek-Vallecito Creek section, southern California, and a review of the Blancan-Irvingtonian boundary. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 19(1):169-186 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
52058 R. H. Tedford, X. Wang, and B. E. Taylor. 2009. Phylogenetic Systematics of the North American Fossil Caninae (Carnivora: Canidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 325:1-218 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot/G. Lloyd]