LACM 5077 (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Orange County, California (33.6° N, 117.7° W: paleocoordinates 33.1° N, 114.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: upper Member (Monterey Formation), Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

• late Clarendonian

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithology not reported

• The Monterey Formation exhibits a submarine slope environment through the late Miocene.
• no lithological description given

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Reposited in the LACM

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

Primary reference: L. G. Barnes. 1985. The Late Miocene dolphin Pithanodelphis Abel, 1905 (Cetacea: Kentriodontidae) from California. Contributions in Science 367:1-27 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 45462: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 24.10.2004

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Cetacea -
"Pithanodelphis nasalis n. sp." = Atocetus nasalis
"Pithanodelphis nasalis n. sp." = Atocetus nasalis Barnes 1985 toothed whale