Carizzo Plains School: Pleistocene, California

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus sp. Brookes 1828
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Mammut americanum (Kerr 1792)
    = Mammut pacificus Dooley et al. 2019
Dooley et al. 2019
Mammalia - Bovidae
Bison latifrons (Harlan 1825)
Mammalia - Camelidae
Camelops sp. Leidy 1854
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:California County:San Luis Obispo
Coordinates: 35.3° North, 120.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.3° North, 119.8° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Pleistocene
Age range of interval:2.58000 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: late Pleistocene
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:LACM
Metadata
Also known as:CPVP 7803, LACM 5659
Database number:65994
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-09-26 13:35:51 Last modified:2006-09-26 16:35:52
Access level:the public Released:2006-09-26 13:35:50
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
18912. G. T. Jefferson, H. L. Fierstine, J. R. Wesling and T.-L. Ku. 1992. Pleistocene terrestrial vertebrates from near Point San Luis, and other localities in San Luis Obispo County, California. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 91(1):26-38 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

35474 A. C. Dooley, E. Scott, J. Green, K. B. Springer, B. S. Booley and G. J. Smith. 2019. Mammut pacificus sp. nov., a newly recognized species of mastodon from the Pleistocene of western North America. PeerJ 7:e6614 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]