Also known as SDNHM 3551
Where: San Diego County, California (32.6° N, 117.0° W: paleocoordinates 32.5° N, 116.1° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: lower Member (San Diego Formation), Blancan (4.9 - 1.8 Ma)
• late Pliocene, Blancan
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: T. A. Deméré. 1994. Two new species of fossil walruses (Pinnipedia: Odobenidae) from the Upper Pliocene San Diego Formation, California. Proceedings of the San Diego Society of Natural History 29:77-98 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 178001: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 13.04.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Valenictus chulavistensis n. sp.
Valenictus chulavistensis n. sp. Deméré 1994 walrus |