Moulton Parkway (Miocene of the United States)

Also known as LACM 7136

Where: Orange County, California (33.6° N, 117.7° W: paleocoordinates 33.1° N, 114.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: upper Member (Monterey Formation), Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; diatomaceous siltstone

• pebble bed, gray siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: H. Howard. 1978. Late Miocene marine birds from Orange County, California. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Contributions in Science 290:1-26 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 106202: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 04.03.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cetacea -
Delphinoidea indet. Flower 1865 toothed whale
 Carnivora - Otariidae
Pithanotaria starri Kellogg 1925 eared seal
 Carnivora - Odobenidae
Odobenidae indet. Allen 1880 walrus
Pontolis sp. True 1905 walrus
sp. nov.