Also known as UCMP V99877

Where: Santa Cruz County, California (36.9° N, 122.0° W: paleocoordinates 35.3° N, 118.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Purisima Formation, Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)

• age after Boessenecker (2019)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; glauconitic sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: R. W. Boessenecker, A. W. Poust, S. J. Boessenecker and M. Churchill. 2024. Tusked walruses (Carnivora: Odobenidae) from the Miocene–Pliocene Purisima Formation of Santa Cruz, California (U.S.A.): a new species of the toothless walrus Valenictus and the oldest records of Odobeninae and Odobenini. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (e2296567)1-33 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 233253: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 30.01.2024

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