Fairmead Landfill Locality Vertebrate Fauna
Class Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes)
Order Perciformes (perch-like fishes)
Family Centrarchidae (sunfishes)
Archoplites interruptus (Sacramento perch)
Class Amphibia (amphibians)
Order Caudata (salamanders, newts, etc.)
Order Anura (frogs and toads)
Class Reptilia (reptiles)
Order Testudines (turtles and tortoises)
Family Emydidae (turtles)
Clemmys marmorata (western pond turtle)
Family Testudinidae (tortoises)
Xerobates agassizi (desert tortoise)
Order Squamata (scaled reptiles)
Family Colubridae (snakes)
Class Aves (birds)
Order Strigiformes (owls)
Family Strigidae (true or typical owls)
Athene cunicularia (burrowing owl)
Order Anseriformes (waterfowl)
Family Anatidae (ducks and geese)
Branta canadensis (Canada goose)
Tadorna tadorna(common shelduck)
Order Columbiformes (doves and pigeons)
Family Columbidae (doves)
Zenaida macroura (mourning dove)
Class Mammalia (mammals)
Order Soricomorpha (shrews and moles)
Family Soricidae (shrews)
Sorex sp. (shrew)
Order Edentata (anteaters, armadillos, sloths)
Family Mylodontidae (ground sloths)
Paramylodon harlani (Harlan’s ground sloth)
Family Megatheriidae (giant ground sloths)
Nothrotheriops shastensis (Shasta ground sloth)
Family Megalonychidae (two-toed sloths)
Megalonyx wheatleyi (Wheatley’s ground sloth)
Order Carnivora (carnivores)
Family Canidae (canids (i.e. dogs))
Canis latrans (coyote)
Canis dirus (dire wolf)
Vulpes velox (swift fox)
Family Felidae (cats)
Homotherium sp.(Scimitar cat)
Smilodon sp. (Saber-tooth cat)
Miracinonyx sp.(American cheetah)
Family Mustelidae (weasels, badgers, skunks, etc.)
Taxidea taxus (badger)
Family Ursidae (bears)
Arctodus sp. (Giant short-faced bear)
Order Rodentia (rodents)
Family Sciuridae (squirrels, etc.)
Spermophilus sp. (ground squirrels)
Family Cricetidae (rats, mice)
Neotoma sp.
(woodrat)
Peromyscus sp. (deer mouse)
Microtus sp. (vole)
Family Geomyidae (gophers)
Thomomys sp. (pocket gopher)
Family Heteromyidae (rats)
cf. Dipodomys sp. (kangaroo rat)
Order Lagomorpha (rabbits and hares)
Family Leporidae (rabbits and hares)
Lepus sp. (rabbit)
Order Proboscidea (proboscideans)
Family Elephantidae (elephants)
Mammuthus columbi (Columbian mammoth)
Order Perissodactyla (perrisodactyls)
Family Equidae (horses)
Equus sp. (horse)
Order Artiodactyla (artiodactyls)
Family Camelidae (camels)
Camelops sp. (camel)
Hemiauchenia sp. (llama)
Family Antilocapridae (pronghorns)
Tetrameryx irvingtonensis (Irvington pronghorn)
Capromeryx sp. (small-sized pronghorn)
Family Cervidae (deer)
Odocoileus sp. (deer)
Family Tayassuidae (peccary)
Platygonus vetus (Leidy's peccary)
The Fairmead Landfill fauna consists of one fish, two amphibians, three reptiles, four birds, 27 mammals, one grastropod and one bivalve.
