San Timoteo Canyon (Mammoth Site): Irvingtonian, California
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Mammuthus sp.
Brookes 1828
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1 specimen | ||||||
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= Mammuthus ? imperator
Leidy 1858
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Albright 1999 | ||||||
| synonym of Mammuthus columbi | |||||||
| 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 |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Irvingtonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 1.40000 - 0.21000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | San Timoteo | ||
| Local section: | ElCas | Local bed: | 380 |
| Local order: | bottom to top |
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection size: | 1 specimens |
| Taxonomic list comments:somewhere between paleomagnetic sampling sites 360 and 400 in Albright's section | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Mammoth Locality; SBCM 5.3.165 | ||
| Database number: | 20522 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2000-05-19 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-06-03 03:27:44 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2000-05-19 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 938. | L. B. Albright. 1999. Magnetostratigraphy and biochronology of the San Timoteo Badlands, southern California, with implications for local Pliocene–Pleistocene tectonic and depositional patterns. Geological Society America Bulletin 111(9):1265-1293 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju] |
Secondary references:
| 939 | L. B. Albright. 1999. Biostratigraphy and Vertebrate Paleontology of the San Timoteo Badlands, Southern California. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 144:1-121 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] |