Also known as LACM 1127; Flagstone quarry of G. Antolini & Sons

Where: Santa Barbara County, California (34.9° N, 120.1° W: paleocoordinates 34.2° N, 115.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Monterey Formation, Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)

• The matrix was analyzed for possible microfossils by Mr. Harry Turver of the Standard Oil Company. He established the deposit as of the Monterey Formation , middle Miocene (Mohnian) in age, but found no evidence of either foraminifera or diatoms.

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, sandy shale and cherty/siliceous limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the LACM

Primary reference: H. Howard. 1957. A gigantic "toothed" marine bird from the Miocene of California. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Department of Geology Bulletin 1:1-23 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 124690: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 21.02.2012, edited by Jonathan Marcot

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