Pauba Formation (SBCM 05.006.378): Irvingtonian, California

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Mylodontidae
Paramylodon harlani (Owen 1840)
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus cf. meridionalis (Nesti 1825)
    = Mammuthus cf. hayi Barbour 1915
Alroy 2002
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 that all M. americanum from California are M. pacificus
Mammalia - Chiroptera
Chiroptera indet. Blumenbach 1779
a bat
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Smilodon fatalis (Leidy 1868)
probably the specimen from the City of Temecula described by Bowden and Scott 1992
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Mustela sp. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Canis latrans Say 1823
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus bautistensis Frick 1921
    = Equus scotti Gidley 1900
Alroy 2002
synonym of Equus (Hesperohippus) mexicanus
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Tapiridae
Tapirus californicus (Merriam 1912)
described by Pajak 1993
Mammalia - Camelidae
Camelops sp. Leidy 1854
    = Camelops cf. hesternus Leidy 1873
Pajak 1997
Hemiauchenia sp. Gervais and Ameghino 1880
Pajak 1997
Mammalia - Tayassuidae
? Tayassuidae indet. Palmer 1897
Mammalia - Cervidae
cf. Odocoileus sp. Rafinesque 1832
Mammalia - Antilocapridae
Capromeryx sp. Matthew 1902
Pajak 1997
presumably includes "cf. Antilocapra sp."
Mammalia - Soricidae
Sorex sp. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Talpidae
Talpidae indet. (Fischer de Waldheim 1817)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Sciuridae indet. Gray 1821
Mammalia - Rodentia - Heteromyidae
Dipodomys sp. Gray 1841
large and small
Perognathus sp. Maximillian 1839
    = Perognathinae indet. Coues 1875
Alroy 2002
large
Mammalia - Rodentia - Geomyidae
Thomomys bottae (Eydoux and Gervais 1836)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Microtus sp. Schrank 1798
    = Microtus californicus Peale 1848
Pajak 1997
Neotoma sp. Say and Ord 1825
? Peromyscus sp. Gloger 1841
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Sylvilagus sp. Gray 1867
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:California County:Riverside
Coordinates: 33.9° North, 117.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.9° North, 116.7° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Irvingtonian
Age range of interval:1.80000 - 0.30000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Pauba
Local section:Temec Local bed:2
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection size:361 specimens
Taxonomic list comments:an incomplete version of this list is given by Pajak 1997
"Pauba Formation" list of Reynolds and Reynolds 1990b is largely repeated by this list and others except for their record of "Ammospermophilus sp."
NISP 361
Metadata
Also known as:General Kearney; SBCM 5.6.378
Database number:20454
Authorizer:J. Alroy, M. Uhen Enterer:J. Alroy, M. Uhen
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1999-09-21 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:44
Access level:the public Released:1999-09-21 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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]

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]
2724 A. F. Pajak, III. 1997. The Irvingtonian General Kearney local fauna, Riverside County, California and comparisons to Pleistocene faunas of Southern California. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 17(3):68A [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]