Vallecito Creek (CU 60): Irvingtonian, California

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Mammut americanum (Kerr 1792)
also referred to as Mammut cf. americanum
    = Mammut pacificus Dooley et al. 2019
Dooley et al. 2019
not specifically referred to by Dooley (2019), but they said all M. americanum in California belongs to M. pacificus
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Stegomastodon sp. Pohlig 1912
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Smilodon gracilis Cope 1880
Mammalia - Tayassuidae
Platygonus sp. Leconte 1848
Mammalia - Cervidae
Odocoileus sp. Rafinesque 1832
Mammalia - Bovidae
Euceratherium sp. Furlong and Sinclair 1904
Mammalia - Antilocapridae
Capromeryx sp. Matthew 1902
Mammalia - Camelidae
Hemiauchenia sp. Gervais and Ameghino 1880
Camelops sp. Leidy 1854
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus (Equus) sp. Linnaeus 1758
Equus (Dolichohippus) sp. (Heller 1912)
synonym of Equus
Equus (Hemionus) sp. (Stehlin and Graziosi 1935)
Equus simplicidens Cope 1892
recombined as Plesippus simplicidens
CU 60.3
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Sylvilagus sp. Gray 1867
Sylvilagus hibbardi White 1984
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Hodomys sp. Merriam 1894
"Neotoma (Hodomys) sp."
Sigmodon minor Gidley 1922
    = Sigmodon medius Gidley 1922
Alroy 2002
synonym of Sigmodon minor
misinterpretation of Martin 1986, Martin and Prince 1989
Mammalia - Rodentia - Geomyidae
Geomys sp. Rafinesque 1817
    = Geomyidae indet. Bonaparte 1845
Alroy 2002
Geomys anzensis Becker and White 1981
    = Nerterogeomys anzensis Becker and White 1981
Alroy 2002
Geomys garbanii White and Downs 1961
    = Nerterogeomys garbanii White and Downs 1961
Alroy 2002
Thomomys sp. Wied-Neuwied 1839
Mammalia - Megalonychidae
Megalonyx sp. Harlan 1825
Megalonyx wheatleyi Cope 1871
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:California County:San Diego
Coordinates: 32.9° North, 117.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.9° North, 116.8° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
*Local age/stage:Irvingtonian
Key time interval:Irvingtonian
Age range of interval:1.40000 - 0.21000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Palm Spring Member:Huesos/Tapiado
Local section:FCVC Local bed:3889
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphy comments: said to be Irvingtonian
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:20128
Authorizer:J. Alroy, M. Uhen Enterer:J. Alroy, M. Uhen
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]
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]