Emery Borrow Pit: Irvingtonian - Rancholabrean, California

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Osteichthyes indet.
Jefferson 1991
3 unidentified taxa
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus cf. imperator (Leidy 1858)
synonym of Mammuthus columbi
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Mammut americanum (Kerr 1792)
    = Mammut pacificus Dooley et al. 2019
Dooley et al. 2019
not specifically mentioned by Dooley et al. (2019), but they state all M. americanum from California are M. pacificus
Mammalia - Megalonychidae
Megalonyx sp. Harlan 1825
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Lynx sp. Kerr 1792
Mammalia - Carnivora - Procyonidae
Bassariscus cf. astutus (Lichtenstein 1830)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mephitidae
Mephitis sp. Cuvier 1800
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
cf. Urocyon sp. Baird 1857
Canis cf. latrans Say 1823
Mammalia - Camelidae
Palaeolama aff. mirifica (Simpson 1929)
Camelops hesternus (Leidy 1873)
Mammalia - Tayassuidae
cf. Tayassuidae indet. Palmer 1897
Mammalia - Cervidae
Cervus elaphus Linnaeus 1758
Odocoileus hemionus (Rafinesque 1817)
Mammalia - Antilocapridae
? Antilocapra sp. Ord 1818
Mammalia - Bovidae
Bovidae indet. Gray 1821
"? Bootherium sp. or Bison sp."
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Tapiridae
Tapirus merriami Frick 1921
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus cf. occidentalis Leidy 1865
synonym of Equus (Hesperohippus) mexicanus
Mammalia - Talpidae
Scapanus cf. latimanus (Bachman 1842)
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Lepus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Sylvilagus bachmani (Waterhouse 1839)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Geomyidae
Thomomys bottae (Eydoux and Gervais 1836)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Spermophilus beecheyi (Richardson 1823)
recombined as Otospermophilus beecheyi
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Neotoma lepida Thomas 1893
Peromyscus sp. Gloger 1841
Microtus californicus (Peale 1848)
Sigmodon sp. Say and Ord 1825
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Bufonidae
Bufo boreas Baird and Girard 1852
Jefferson 1991
recombined as Anaxyrus boreas
Bufo nestor
Jefferson 1991
Actinopteri - Cypriniformes - Cyprinidae
Gila orcuttii
Jefferson 1991
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:California County:Orange
Coordinates: 33.6° North, 117.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.5° North, 117.5° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Irvingtonian - Rancholabrean
Age range of interval:1.40000 - 0.01400 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:La Habra
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:LACM
Taxonomic list comments:"? late Irvingtonian through Rancholabrean"
Metadata
Also known as:LACM 3536, 3537, 4178, 7053, 7054, 7088, 7089; RCIC 47
Database number:20323
Authorizer:J. Alroy, M. Uhen, P. Holroyd Enterer:J. Alroy, P. Holroyd, M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:1994-06-07 00:00:00 Last modified:2019-03-29 07:56:28
Access level:the public Released:1994-06-07 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
2018. G. T. Jefferson. 1991. A catalogue of late Quaternary Vertebrates from California: Part Two, Mammals. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Technical Reports 7:1-129 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Holroyd]

Secondary references:

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]
76348 G. T. Jefferson. 1991. A catalogue of late Quaternary vertebrates from California: Part One, nonmarine lower vertebrate and avian taxa. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Technical Reports 5:1-60 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]