Beacon and Second Streets: Late/Upper Pleistocene, California
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Megalonychidae
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Megalonyx jeffersonii
(Desmarest 1822)
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| DUPLICATE REF 2018 or 2019 | ||||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | California | County: | Los Angeles |
| Coordinates: | 34.0° North, 118.2° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 34.0° North, 117.9° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| Stage: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 0.12900 - 0.01170 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Palos Verdes Sand |
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
| Glacial or sequence phase: | interglacial |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Taxonomic list comments:said to be "18O substage 5e" |
Metadata
| Also known as: | UCLA 1063.12 DUPLICATE REF 2018 or 2019 | ||
| Database number: | 20574 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2002-05-15 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2007-09-18 13:26:29 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-05-15 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] |