Where: San Mateo County, California (37.3° N, 122.4° W: paleocoordinates 37.1° N, 121.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Purisima Formation, Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• Uppermost Zanclean on stratigraphic column, below 3.3-3.4 ma ash bed

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; sandstone and siltstone

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 117471: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 22.09.2011

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