Where: Santa Cruz County, California (37.0° N, 122.0° W: paleocoordinates 36.6° N, 120.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Purisima Formation, Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)

• stratigraphically higher than specimens from Point Santa Cruz (Repenning & Tedford, 1977)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

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 152071: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 05.11.2013

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