Also known as UCMP V-4852
Where: Puerto Rico (18.3° N, 66.9° W: paleocoordinates 17.5° N, 66.0° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: San Sebastian Formation, Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)
• Reinhardt states that these deposits are Middle Oligocene
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: argillaceous limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Reposited in the UCMP
Collection methods: quarrying,
Primary reference: R. H. Reinhart. 1959. A review of the Sirenia and Desmostylia. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 36(1):1-146 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 40508: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 24.06.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Caribosiren turneri Reinhart 1959 dugong |