La Mirada: Late/Upper Pleistocene, California
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes
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Osteichthyes indet.
Huxley 1880
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Reptilia
- Anseriformes
- Anatidae
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Anatidae indet.
Vigors 1825
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Reptilia
- Meleagridae
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Parapavo californicus
(Miller 1909)
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Reptilia
- Odontophoridae
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Lophortyx sp.
Bonaparte 1838
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synonym of Callipepla | ||||||||||
originally entered as "Lophortyx indet." | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Emydidae
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Clemmys sp.
Ritgen 1828
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= Emydinae indet.
Rafinesque 1815
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Alroy 2007 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Serpentes
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Serpentes indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Megalonychidae
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Megalonyx sp.
Harlan 1825
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Mammutidae
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Mammut americanum
(Kerr 1792)
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= Mammut pacificus
Dooley et al. 2019
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Dooley et al. 2019 | |||||||||
not specifically mentioned by Dooley et al. (2019), but they state that all M. americanum from California are M. pacificus | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Felidae
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Lynx rufus
(Schreber 1777)
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Phocidae
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Phocidae indet.
(Gray 1821)
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original and current combination Phocadae | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Ursidae
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Ursus americanus
Pallas 1780
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Canis cf. dirus
Leidy 1858
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recombined as Aenocyon dirus | ||||||||||
Urocyon cf. cinereoargenteus
(Schreber 1775)
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Canis cf. latrans
Say 1823
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Camelops cf. hesternus
(Leidy 1873)
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Mammalia
- Cervidae
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Odocoileus cf. hemionus
(Rafinesque 1817)
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Bison sp.
Hamilton-Smith 1827
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Geomyidae
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Thomomys bottae
(Eydoux and Gervais 1836)
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Microtus cf. californicus
(Peale 1848)
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Peromyscus sp.
Gloger 1841
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Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Sylvilagus sp.
Gray 1867
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Ranidae
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cf. Rana sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Chondrichthyes
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Chondrichthyes indet.
Huxley 1880
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | California | County: | Los Angeles |
Coordinates: | 33.9° North, 118.0° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 33.9° North, 118.0° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 0.12600 - 0.01170 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | brown,gray,green,red unlithified siltstone |
Secondary lithology: | unlithified sandstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: silts and sands from grayish green to reddish brown | |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 73752 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen, J. Alroy | Enterer: | M. Uhen, J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2007-06-27 13:04:08 | Last modified: | 2007-06-27 16:04:08 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-06-27 13:04:08 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
2588. | W. E. Miller. 1971. Pleistocene vertebrates of the Los Angeles basin and vicinity:(exclusive of Rancho La Brea). Bulletin of the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, Science 10:1-124 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
19636 | J. Alroy. 2007. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil vertebrates and so forth. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
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] |