Also known as UCMP V-5555, M1036
Where: Santa Cruz County, California (37.1° N, 122.0° W: paleocoordinates 36.5° N, 119.2° W)
• coordinate based on unpublished field data
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Santa Margarita Formation, Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)
• lower part of the Santa Margarita Formation; age after Scheirer and Magoon 2007
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shoreface; coarse-grained, conglomeratic sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Reposited in the UCMP
Collection methods: sieve,
Primary reference: L. G. Barnes. 1978. A review of Lophocetus and Liolithax and their relationships to the delphinoid family Kentriodontidae (Cetacea: Odontoceti). Bulletin of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 28:1-35 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 46070: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 29.12.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia | |
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"Hipparion cf. mohavense" = Cormohipparion occidentale2
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Desmostylus sp. Marsh 1888 desmostylian | |
Liolithax sp. Kellogg 1931 toothed whale | |
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Allodesmus sp. Kellogg 1922 pinniped | |
Chondrichthyes | |
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"Carcharodon megalodon" = Otodus megalodon1
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