Also known as UCMP V2701

Where: Santa Cruz County, California (37.0° N, 122.0° W: paleocoordinates 35.3° N, 118.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

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

• Kellogg (1927) originally stated that this was Santa Margarita Formation, late Miocene. Current information is from Repenning and Tedford, 1977.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; fine-grained sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: R. Kellogg. 1927. Fossil Pinnipeds from California. Contributions to Palaeontology from the Carnegie Institution of Washington 27-37 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 152092: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 07.11.2013

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