SDNHM 3418 ( of the United States)
Where: San Diego County, California (32.6° N, 117.0° W: paleocoordinates 32.5° N, 116.1° W)
• coordinate based on unpublished field data
When: 4 Member (San Diego Formation), Blancan (4.9 - 1.8 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
• Sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: R. M. Chandler. 1990. Fossil birds of the San Diego Formation, Late Pliocene, Blancan, San Diego County, California. Ornithological Monographs 44:73-161 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 178016: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Advait Jukar on 13.04.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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| Aves | |
"Diomedea howardae" = Phoebastria albatrus
"Diomedea howardae" = Phoebastria albatrus Pallas 1769 short-tailed albatross | |
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Gavia sp. Forster 1788 loon
Gavia howardae Brodkorb 1953 loon | |