Where: Alameda County, California (37.6° N, 121.9° W: paleocoordinates 36.9° N, 118.5° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Briones Formation (San Pablo Group), Serravallian to Serravallian (13.8 - 7.2 Ma)
• location, age, and formation data from Domning (1996).
•AGE: edited following EPICC stratigraphic revision [6/13/2020].
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the YPM
Primary reference: O. C. Marsh. 1888. Notice of a new fossil sirenian, from California. American Journal of Science 25(8):94-96 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 13093: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 21.01.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
ex gr. Desmostylus hesperus n. sp.
ex gr. Desmostylus hesperus n. sp. Marsh 1888 desmostylian |