CAS 905 (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Kern County, California (35.5° N, 119.5° W: paleocoordinates 34.7° N, 114.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Round Mountain Member (Temblor Formation), Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)

• Sharktooth Hill Bonebed

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; siltstone

• The environment is reconstructed on the basis of the fauna as coastal or shoreline marine. Marine taxa dominant (whales and pelagic birds) with some terrestrial mammals.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Reposited in the LACM

• collected by S. A. McLeod of the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History

Primary reference: L. G. Barnes and R. E. Reynolds. 2009. A new species of early Miocene allodelphinid dolphin (Cetacea, Odontoceti, Platanistoidea) from Cajon Pass, Southern California, U.S.A. Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin 65:483-507 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 100258: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 04.12.2010

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cetacea - Allodelphinidae
"Squalodon errabundus n. sp." = Zarhinocetus errabundus
"Squalodon errabundus n. sp." = Zarhinocetus errabundus Kellogg 1931 toothed whale