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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
"Squalodon errabundus n. sp." = Zarhinocetus errabundus
"Squalodon errabundus n. sp." = Zarhinocetus errabundus Kellogg 1931 toothed whale |