Where: San Mateo County, California (37.3° N, 122.4° W: paleocoordinates 36.9° N, 120.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Purisima Formation, Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)
• Powell et al 2007 suggest a Pliocene age
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the UCMP
Primary reference: R. W. Boessenecker. 2011. A new marine vertebrate assemblage from the Late Neogene Purisima Formation in Central California, Part I: Fossil sharks, bony fish, birds, and implications for the age of the Purisimia Formation west of the San Gregorio Fault. PalArch's Journal of Vertebrate Palaeontology 8(4):1-30 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 117470: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 22.09.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
cf. Hexanchus sp. Rafinesque 1810 sixgill shark | |
Carcharodon sp. Smith 1838 white shark | |
Mammalia | |
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Balaenopteridae indet. Gray 1864 rorqual
cf. Balaenoptera sp. Lacépède 1804 rorqual | |
cf. Eubalaena "sp. 1" Gray 1864 right whale |