LACM 1557: Serravallian, California

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Carnivora - Odobenidae
Neotherium mirum Kellogg 1931
Velez-Juarbe 2018
UCMP 81665 from UCMP Loc. V68131
Mammalia - Carnivora - Desmatophocidae
Allodesmus kelloggi n. sp. Mitchell 1966
1 specimen
synonym of Allodesmus kernensis
Allodesmus gracilis n. sp. Barnes and Hirota 1995
Barnes and Hirota 1995 6 specimens
synonym of Allodesmus kernensis
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hypohippus sp. (Leidy 1858)
Prothero et al. 2008
original and current combination Anchitherium (Hypohippus)
LACM 4330
Mammalia - Cetacea - Allodelphinidae
Squalodon errabundus Kellogg 1931
Kimura and Barnes 2016
recombined as Zarhinocetus errabundus
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Otodontidae
Carcharocles megalodon (Agassiz 1835)
Pimiento et al. 2013
recombined as Otodus megalodon
LACM 10147-10148. Loc. 1625. Barstovian according with label
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:California County:Kern
Coordinates: 35.5° North, 118.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.3° North, 114.4° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Serravallian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Serravallian
Age range of interval:13.82000 - 11.63000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Temblor
Stratigraphy comments: late middle Miocene
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:LACM
Metadata
Also known as:UCMP V-6323, LACM 1625, UCMP V-6324, UCMP V-6843, UCMP V-68131, LACM 7116, UCMP V-69169
Database number:58987
Authorizer:M. Uhen, J. Marcot, C. Jaramillo Enterer:M. Uhen, C. Pimiento, J. Marcot
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-03-03 11:47:24 Last modified:2006-03-08 13:24:13
Access level:the public Released:2006-03-03 11:47:24
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
16736. E. D. Mitchell. 1966. The Miocene pinniped Allodesmus. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 61:1-105 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

16772 L. G. Barnes. 1970. A re-evaluation of mandibles of Allodesmus (Otariidae, Carnivora) from the Round Mountain Silt, Kern County, California. PaleoBios 10:1-24 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
43845% 38660L. G. Barnes. 1972. Miocene Desmatophocinae (Mammalia: Carnivora) from California. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 89:1-76 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
16919 L. G. Barnes and K. Hirota. 1995. Miocene pinnipeds of the otariid subfamily Allodesminae in the North Pacific Ocean: Systematics and relationships. The Island Arc 3:329-360 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
58604 T. Kimura and L. G. Barnes. 2016. New Miocene fossil Allodelphinidae (Cetacea, Odontoceti, Platanistoidea) from the North Pacific Ocean. Bulletin of the Gunma Museum of Natural History 20:1-58 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
52363 C. Pimiento, G. González-Barba, D. J. Ehret, B. J. MacFadden, A. J. W. Hendy and C. Jaramillo. 2013. Sharks and Rays (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii) from the late Miocene Gatun Formation of Panama. Journal of Paleontology 87(5):755-774 [C. Jaramillo/C. Pimiento/M. Uhen]
33296 D. R. Prothero, M. R. Liter, L. G. Barnes, X. Wang, E. Mitchell, S. McLeod, D. P. Whistler, R. H. Tedford, and C. Ray. 2008. Land mammals from the middle Miocene Sharktooth Hill Bonebed, Kern County, California. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 44:299-314 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
53649 J. Velez-Juarbe. 2018. New data on the early odobenid Neotherium mirum Kellogg, 1931, and other pinniped remains from the Sharktooth Hill Bonebed, California. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 38(4):e1481080 [M. Uhen/L. Harfoush/M. Uhen]