Where: San Mateo County, California (37.3° N, 122.4° W: paleocoordinates 37.0° N, 121.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Purisima Formation, Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; sandstone and siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the UCMP
Primary reference: R. W. Boessenecker. 2011. A new marine vertebrate assemblage from the Late Neogene Purisima Formation in Central California, Part I: Fossil sharks, bony fish, birds, and implications for the age of the Purisimia Formation west of the San Gregorio Fault. PalArch's Journal of Vertebrate Palaeontology 8(4):1-30 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 184965: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.04.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
"Raja cf. binoculata" = Beringraja binoculata
"Raja cf. binoculata" = Beringraja binoculata Girard 1855 skate | |
Cetorhinus maximus Gunner 1765 basking shark | |
Mammalia | |
Herpetocetus sp. Van Beneden 1872 whale | |
Balaenopteridae indet. Gray 1864 rorqual |