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L. Barry Albright
Biostratigraphy and Vertebrate Paleontology of the San Timoteo Badlands, Southern California
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978-0-520-09836-7
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134 pages, 16 tables, 21 figures, 8 halftones
March 2000, Available worldwide
Categories: Ecology, Evolution, Environment; Earth Science; Animals; Zoology; Evolution

The author describes forty-two fossil taxa recovered during a study of the San Timoteo Badlands that used magnetobiostratigraphy to develop a temporal framework for addressing the tectonic evolution of southern California over the last 6 million years. For the Pliocene, small mammals are an effective means of correlating a magnetostratigraphy to the Geomagnetic Polarity Time Scale when radioisotopic dates are unobtainable.