Where: Dukes County, Massachusetts (41.3° N, 70.8° W: paleocoordinates 41.4° N, 68.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Gay Head Formation, Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

• Tortonian (Dewaele, et al. 2018)

Environment/lithology: coastal; green sandstone

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: L. Dewaele, O. Lambert, and S. Louwye. 2018. A critical revision of the fossil record, stratigraphy and diversity of the Neogene seal genus Monotherium (Carnivora, Phocidae). Royal Society Open Science 5:171669 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 193358: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 14.05.2018

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