PBDB Collection

Kew Quarry: Whitneyan - late Early Arikareean, California

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae

	Geochelone sp. Fitzinger 1835	Lander 1983

	Gopherus neglectus n. sp. Brattstrom 1961	Brattstrom 1961
	synonym of Stylemys nebrascensis
	"C.I.T. Locality 126, Kew Quarry" (2 measurements)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae

	Sciuridae indet. Gray 1821	Wilson 1934
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cylindrodontidae

	Ischyromyidae indet. Alston 1876
	(1 measurement)
	= Sespemys thurstoni n. sp. Wilson 1934	Wilson 1934
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae

	Paciculus sp. Cope 1879	Lander 1983
	probably "Cricetid sp." of Wilson 1949c
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae

	Desmatolagus sp. Matthew and Granger 1923
	= Leporidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817	Alroy 2002
	replaces ID of Wilson 1949c; "? Palaeolagus
Mammalia - Carnivora - Amphicyonidae

	Temnocyon cf. altigenis Cope 1878
	= Rudiocyon amplidens n. sp. Hunt 2011	Stock 1933
	replaces "Temnocyon large species: Stock, 1933b: 36"
	= Temnocyon altigenis Cope 1878	Lander 1983
	replaces ID of Stock 1933e; "T. sp."
	= Temnocyon cf. subferox Hunt 2011	Hunt 2011
Mammalia - Carnivora - Nimravidae

	Hoplophoneus belli n. sp. Stock 1933
	synonym of Hoplophoneus cerebralis
	(3 measurements)

	Nimravus meridianus n. sp. Stock 1933
	synonym of Nimravus brachyops
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae

	Mesocyon baileyi Stock 1933
	synonym of Mesocyon brachyops
	type of Stock 1933e; "M. sp."

	Nothocyon pavidus n. sp. (Stock 1933)
	= Archaeocyon pavidus Stock 1933	Stock 1933
	"Pseudocynodictis?"
Mammalia - Hypertragulidae

	Hypertragulus fontanus n. sp. Stock 1935	Stock 1935
	recombined as Nanotragulus fontanus
Mammalia - Anthracotheriidae

	Bothriodon cf. brachyrhynchus (Osborn and Wortman 1894)
	= Elomeryx armatus Marsh 1894	Lander 1983
	replaces ID of Stock 1935e; "E. sp." of Macdonald 1956b
Mammalia - Camelidae

	Dyseotylopus migrans n. gen., n. sp. Stock 1935	Stock 1935
	synonym of Miotylopus gibbi
	type of Stock 1935e; "Camelidae indet."; "? Stenomylus campester" of Lander
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae

	Miohippus sp. Marsh 1874
	= Miohippus annectens Marsh 1874	Lander 1983
	see also Stock 1933d
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae

	Subhyracodon kewi n. sp. Stock 1933
	of Stock 1933d "S. sp." (3 measurements)
see common names

Geography

Country:	United States	State/province:	California	County:	Ventura
Coordinates:	34.3° North, 119.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	32.8° North, 110.4° West
Basis of coordinate:	based on political unit
Geographic resolution:	small collection

Time



*Period:	Tertiary	*Epoch:	Oligocene
Key time interval:	Whitneyan - late Early Arikareean
Age range of interval:	31.80000 - 18.50000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields

Stratigraphy

Formation:	Sespe
Stratigraphic resolution:	group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: fossils are from a single "horizon"

Lithology and environment

Primary lithology:	red claystone
Secondary lithology:	green sandstone
Lithology description: "maroon-colored clays and greenish sandstones"
Environment:	terrestrial indet.

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:	body
Size of fossils:	macrofossils

Collection methods and comments

Collection methods:	field collection
Reason for describing collection:	general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:	CIT
Taxonomic list comments:see also Lander 1983

Metadata

Also known as:	CIT 126; UCMP V-4215
Database number:	17527
Authorizer:	J. Alroy, J. Marcot, P. Holroyd	Enterer:	J. Alroy, J. Marcot, P. Holroyd
Modifier:	J. Marcot	Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	1993-02-18 00:00:00	Last modified:	2023-09-27 19:01:45
Access level:	the public	Released:	1993-02-18 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:	CC BY

Reference information

Primary reference:

6287.

C. Stock. 1932. An upper Oligocene mammalian fauna from southern California. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 18(8):550-554 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

6294		J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
697		B. H. Brattstrom. 1961. Some new fossil tortoises from western North America with remarks on the zoogeography and paleoecology of tortoises. Journal of Paleontology 35(3):543-560 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/J. Alroy]
52421		R. M. Hunt, Jr. 2011. Evolution of Large Carnivores During the Mid-Cenozoic of North America: The Temnocyonine Radiation (Mammalia, Amphicyonidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 358:1-153 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]
2205		E. B. Lander. 1983. Continental Vertebrate Faunas from the Upper Member of the Sespe Formation, Simi Valley, California, and the terminal Eocene Event. In R. R. Squires, M. V. Filewicz (eds.), Cenozoic Geology of the Simi Valley Area, Southern California, SEPM Fall Field Trip Volume and Guidebook 142-144 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Holroyd]
2805	5% 6280	D. R. Prothero. 1996. Camelidae. In D. R. Prothero and R. J. Emry (eds.), The Terrestrial Eocene-Oligocene Transition in North America 609-651 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]
51726		D. R. Prothero. 2005. The Evolution of North American Rhinoceroses. 1-218 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]
3258		C. Stock. 1933. Carnivora from the Sespe of the Las Posas Hills, California. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 440(4):29-41 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
3271		C. Stock. 1935. Artiodactyla From the Sespe of the Las Posas Hills, California. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 453(8):119-125 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]
3678		R. W. Wilson. 1934. Two Rodents and a Lagomorph from the Sespe of the Las Posas Hills, California. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 453(2):11-17 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]