Where: Santa Cruz County, California (37.0° N, 122.2° W: paleocoordinates 37.0° N, 122.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: dune; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: anthropogenic, midden
Primary reference: G. V. Morejohn. 1976. Evidence of the survival to recent times of the extinct flightless duck Chendytes lawi Miller. Collected Papers in Avian Paleontology Honoring the 90th Birthday of Alexander Wetmore. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 27:207-211 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 194880: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.07.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Aves | |
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Aves indet. Linnaeus 1758 bird | |
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Buteo jamaicensis Gmelin 1788 red-tailed hawk | |
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Falconiformes indet. raptor | |
Fulmarus glacialis, "Puffinus griseus" = Ardenna grisea
Fulmarus glacialis Linnaeus 1761 northern fulmar
"Puffinus griseus" = Ardenna grisea Gmelin 1789 sooty shearwater | |
Diomedeidae indet., "Diomedea albatrus" = Phoebastria albatrus
"Diomedea albatrus" = Phoebastria albatrus Pallas 1769 short-tailed albatross | |
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Phalacrocorax penicillatus Brandt 1837 Brandt's cormorant
Phalacrocorax pelagicus Pallas 1811 pelagic cormorant | |
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Gavia stellata Pontoppidan 1763 Red-throated loon | |
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Anseriformes indet. Wagler 1831 waterfowl | |
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Chendytes lawi Miller 1925 Law's diving-goose
Melanitta fusca Linnaeus 1758 velvet scoter | |
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Charadriiformes indet. Huxley 1867 shorebird | |
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Uria aalge Pontoppidan 1763 Common murre
Ptychoramphus aleuticus Pallas 1811 Cassin's auklet
Cepphus columba Pallas 1811 pigeon guillemot | |
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| Reptilia | |
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Galliformes indet. fowl | |