La Mirada: Late/Upper Pleistocene, California

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes
Osteichthyes indet. Huxley 1880
Reptilia - Anseriformes - Anatidae
Anatidae indet. Vigors 1825
Reptilia - Meleagridae
Parapavo californicus (Miller 1909)
Reptilia - Odontophoridae
Lophortyx sp. Bonaparte 1838
synonym of Callipepla
originally entered as "Lophortyx indet."
Reptilia - Testudines - Emydidae
Clemmys sp. Ritgen 1828
    = Emydinae indet. Rafinesque 1815
Alroy 2007
Reptilia - Serpentes
Serpentes indet. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Megalonychidae
Megalonyx sp. Harlan 1825
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Mammut americanum (Kerr 1792)
    = Mammut pacificus Dooley et al. 2019
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
Lynx rufus (Schreber 1777)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Phocidae
Phocidae indet. (Gray 1821)
original and current combination Phocadae
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Ursus americanus Pallas 1780
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Canis cf. dirus Leidy 1858
recombined as Aenocyon dirus
Urocyon cf. cinereoargenteus (Schreber 1775)
Canis cf. latrans Say 1823
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Camelidae
Camelops cf. hesternus (Leidy 1873)
Mammalia - Cervidae
Odocoileus cf. hemionus (Rafinesque 1817)
Mammalia - Bovidae
Bison sp. Hamilton-Smith 1827
Mammalia - Rodentia - Geomyidae
Thomomys bottae (Eydoux and Gervais 1836)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Microtus cf. californicus (Peale 1848)
Peromyscus sp. Gloger 1841
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Sylvilagus sp. Gray 1867
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Ranidae
cf. Rana sp. Linnaeus 1758
Chondrichthyes
Chondrichthyes indet. Huxley 1880
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]