Cammatti Ranch: Tortonian, California

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae
Testudininae indet. Gray 1825
Mammalia - Sirenia - Sirenia
Sirenia indet. Illiger 1811
Mammalia - Carnivora
Carnivora indet. Bowdich 1821
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparion sp. de Christol 1832
originally entered as "Hipparion indet."
    = Hipparionini indet. Quinn 1955
Alroy 2007
Mammalia - Camelidae
Camelidae indet. Gray 1821
Mammalia - Cetacea
Delphinoidea indet. Flower 1865
Mysticeti indet. Cope 1891
Mammalia - Antilocapridae
Merycodus sp. Leidy 1854
originally entered as "Merycodus indet."
    = Merycodontinae indet. Matthew 1904
Alroy 2007
Actinopteri
Teleostei indet. Müller 1846
Chondrichthyes - Squatinidae
Squatina sp. Dumeril 1806
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Galeocerdidae
Galeocerdo sp. Müller and Henle 1837
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Isurus sp. Rafinesque 1810
Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Dasyatidae
Dasyatis sp. Rafinesque 1810
Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes
Myliobatoidea indet.
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Basis of coordinate:unpublished field data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% 34240D. 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]