Cammatti Ranch: Tortonian, California
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Testudinidae
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Testudininae indet.
Gray 1825
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Mammalia
- Sirenia
- Sirenia
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Sirenia indet.
Illiger 1811
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
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Carnivora indet.
Bowdich 1821
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Hipparion sp.
de Christol 1832
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originally entered as "Hipparion indet." | ||||||||||
= Hipparionini indet.
Quinn 1955
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Alroy 2007 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Camelidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
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Delphinoidea indet.
Flower 1865
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Mysticeti indet.
Cope 1891
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Mammalia
- Antilocapridae
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Merycodus sp.
Leidy 1854
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originally entered as "Merycodus indet." | ||||||||||
= Merycodontinae indet.
Matthew 1904
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Alroy 2007 | |||||||||
Actinopteri
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Teleostei indet.
Müller 1846
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Chondrichthyes
- Squatinidae
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Squatina sp.
Dumeril 1806
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Chondrichthyes
- Carcharhiniformes
- Galeocerdidae
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Galeocerdo sp.
Müller and Henle 1837
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Lamnidae
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Isurus sp.
Rafinesque 1810
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Chondrichthyes
- Myliobatiformes
- Dasyatidae
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Dasyatis sp.
Rafinesque 1810
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Chondrichthyes
- Myliobatiformes
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Myliobatoidea indet.
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | California | County: | San Luis Obispo |
Coordinates: | 35.5° North, 120.3° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 35.0° North, 117.4° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | unpublished field data |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
Stage: | Tortonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
Key time interval: | Tortonian | ||
Age range of interval: | 11.62000 - 7.24600 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Santa Margarita | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: age after Scheirer and Magoon 2007 |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | red or brown sandstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: thin dark red-brown sandstone bed in the top of lower (nonmarine) thrid, or from base of overlying marine portion of Santa Margarita sandstone | |
Environment: | shoreface |
Geology comments: shoreface to barrier beach, evidence of hypersaline lagoon, "catastrophic conditions" caused deposition of sand body, slopes down into muddy shelf bay |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 52202 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen, J. Alroy | Enterer: | M. Uhen, J. Alroy |
Modifier: | B. Shipps | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2005-08-01 08:02:10 | Last modified: | 2017-02-26 16:29:11 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-08-01 08:02:10 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
6029. | 5% 34240 | D. P. Domning. 1978. Sirenian evolution in the North Pacific Ocean. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 118:1-176 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
19636 | J. Alroy. 2007. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil vertebrates and so forth. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |