Also known as V99868

Where: Santa Cruz County, California (37.0° N, 121.9° W: paleocoordinates 36.7° N, 120.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Purisima Formation, Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• Age originally entered as Messinian following Boessnecker et al. 2013; explicitly updated to Zanclean in Boessenecker 2017.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: R. W. Boessenecker. 2017. A new early Pliocene record of the toothless walrus Valenictus (Carnivora, Odobenidae) from the Purisima Formation of northern California. PaleoBios 34:1-6 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 153705: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 09.01.2014, edited by Patricia Holroyd

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