Also known as LACM 4438

Where: Orange County, California (33.6° N, 117.6° W: paleocoordinates 33.3° N, 115.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Oso Member (Capistrano Formation), Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)

• age after Barbosa et al., 2017

Environment/lithology: shoreface; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: I. Magallanes, J. F. Parham, G.-P. Santos and J. Velez-Juarbe. 2018. A new tuskless walrus from the Miocene of Orange County, California, with comments on the diversity and taxonomy of odobenids. PeerJ 6:e5708 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 196919: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 12.10.2018

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