Point Santa Cruz (Miocene of the United States)

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
 Carnivora - Otariidae
Thalassoleon cf. macnallyae Repenning and Tedford 1977 eared seal