Where: Grays Harbor County, Washington (47.0° N, 123.4° W: paleocoordinates 46.8° N, 117.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Astoria Formation (Mauch Chunk Group), Burdigalian to Burdigalian (20.4 - 13.8 Ma)

• The holotype specimen of Zarhinocetus donnamatsonae (Figure 30) was found in a concretion of fine grained gray sandstone derived from an undetermined level of the Astoria Formation.

Environment/lithology: marine; fine-grained, gray sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: T. Kimura and L. G. Barnes. 2016. New Miocene fossil Allodelphinidae (Cetacea, Odontoceti, Platanistoidea) from the North Pacific Ocean. Bulletin of the Gunma Museum of Natural History 20:1-58 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 125136: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Margaret Shalap on 05.03.2012, edited by Mark Uhen

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