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Tassajara, Contra Costa County, California, USA

FormationTassajara
Member(s)basal
Age:4.90 - 1.80 Ma
Cenozoic
IntervalBlancan
Number of Collections1
Number of Occurrences3

Recorded Sample Locations

LocationRegionStratigraphic Name
UCMP V-5053Contra Costa County, California, USATassajara - basal
UCMP V-6869Contra Costa County, California, USATassajara

Associated Units

Stratigraphic NameAgeLithologyOccurrence Records
Tassajara - basal10.3 - 4.90 Ma
Neogene
1

Recorded Fossils

Accepted NameHierarchyAge
Scapanus sp.
genus
6Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Soricomorpha : Talpidae : Scapanus4.9 - 1.8 Ma
Cenozoic
Ogmodontomys sawrockensis
species
7Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Rodentia : Cricetidae : Ogmodontomys : Ogmodontomys sawrockensis4.9 - 1.8 Ma
Cenozoic
Repomys maxumi
species
7Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Rodentia : Muridae : Repomys : Repomys maxumi4.9 - 1.8 Ma
Cenozoic
Megalonychidae
family
5Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Pilosa : Megalonychidae10.3 - 4.9 Ma
Neogene

References

Hirschfeld S. E., Webb S. D. (1968) Plio-Pleistocene Megalonychid Sloths of North America, Bulletin of the Florida State Museum 12 5
May S. R. (1981) Repomys (Mammalia: Rodentia gen. nov.) from the Late Neogene of California and Nevada, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 1 2, 219-230
Hutchison J. H. (1987) Scapanus from California, Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 386, 1-15
Alroy J. (2002) Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
 
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