Where: Santa Cruz County, California (37.0° N, 122.0° W: paleocoordinates 35.3° N, 119.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Purisima Formation, Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)
• basal glauconite bed, which has been dated as 6.7 m. y. (J. D. Obradovich, pers. com.) (Repenning & Tedford, 1977
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; glauconitic sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the LACM
Primary reference: C. A. Repenning and R. H. Tedford. 1977. Otarioid seals of the Neogene. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 992:1-93 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/P. Holroyd]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 152070: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 05.11.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Thalassoleon cf. macnallyae Repenning and Tedford 1977 eared seal |