Hoots locality 65, Santa Monica Mountains (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Los Angeles County, California (34.1° N, 118.6° W: paleocoordinates 33.7° N, 116.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: lower Member (Modelo Formation), Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• base of Modelo formation (early upper Miocene)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; intraclastic, conglomeratic sandstone

• "...hard massive bed of conglomeratic graywacke at the base of the formation, which is literally filled with small angular fragments of slate. ... This bed is the most highly fossiliferous in the entire formation for macroscopic forms and is commonly 20ยท to 30 feet thick, though ranging from 50 feet down to the vanishing point."

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by H. D. Hobson, H. W. Hoots, R. D. Reed, and W. P. Woodring; reposited in the CIT, LACM

Primary reference: H. W. Hoots. 1931. Geology of the eastern part of the Santa Monica Mountains, Los Angeles County, California. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 165(C):83-134 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 237586: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 12.12.2024

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Carnivora - Desmatophocidae
Allodesmus cf. kernensis
Allodesmus cf. kernensis Kellogg 1922 pinniped