Santa Monica Mountains (Miocene of the United States)
Where: Los Angeles County, California (34.1° N, 118.4° W: paleocoordinates 33.7° N, 115.9° W)
When: upper Member (Modelo Formation), Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; diatomaceous shale
• diatomaceous shale
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: L. R. David. 1943. Miocene Fishes of Southern California. Geological Society of America Special Paper 43:1-187 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 185677: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 09.05.2017
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