Comanche Point: Tortonian, California
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Hipparion cf. forcei
Richey 1948
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Pliohippus leardi
Drescher 1941
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| recombined as Dinohippus leardi | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Antilocapridae
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Merycodus sp.
Leidy 1854
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Camelidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
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Cetacea indet.
Brisson 1762
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Mammalia
- Merycoidodontidae
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Ustatochoerus cf. major
(Leidy 1858)
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Odobenidae
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Imagotaria sp.
Mitchell 1968
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Mammalia
- Sirenia
- Dugongidae
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Dusisiren informal sp. B
Domning 1978
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Testudinidae
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cf. Testudo sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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| "cf. Testudo indet." | ||||||||||
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= Testudinidae indet.
Batsch 1788
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Alroy 2006 | |||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | California | County: | Kern |
| Coordinates: | 35.1° North, 118.8° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 35.0° North, 115.7° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Tortonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Tortonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 11.63000 - 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: | green,white sandstone |
| Secondary lithology: | green claystone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: green sandstone | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | UCMP |
Metadata
| Also known as: | UCMP 3557, UCMP 3558 | ||
| Database number: | 52210 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen, J. Alroy | Enterer: | M. Uhen, J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-08-01 09:16:22 | Last modified: | 2011-07-22 13:53:24 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-08-01 09:16:22 |
| 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:
| 18120 | J. Alroy. 2006. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil vertebrates. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |