Where: Los Angeles County, California (34.1° N, 118.4° W: paleocoordinates 33.7° N, 115.9° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: upper Member (Modelo Formation), Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
• Locality is within the outcrops of diatomaceous shale that have been mapped as the Upper Member of the Modelo Formation of late Miocene age.
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, diatomaceous shale
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 45463: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 24.10.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
"Pithanodelphis nasalis" = Atocetus nasalis
"Pithanodelphis nasalis" = Atocetus nasalis Barnes 1985 toothed whale |