Also known as LACM 4297, V68147
Where: San Diego County, California (33.2° N, 117.4° W: paleocoordinates 32.7° N, 114.5° W)
• coordinate based on unpublished field data
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: San Mateo Formation, Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)
• The San Luis Rey River Local Fauna of the San Mateo Formation is correlative with the early Hemphillian and possibly latest Clarendonian North American Land Mammal Age (Domning and Deméré 1984), and late Tortonian (Europe/Asia), approximately 7–9 Ma.
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Reposited in the LACM, UCMP
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: L. G. Barnes, H. Howard, J. H. Hutchison and B. J. Welton. 1981. The vertebrate fossils of the marine Cenozoic San Mateo Formation at Oceanside, California. Geologic Investigations of the Coastal Plain 53-70 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 50069: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 05.05.2005, edited by John Alroy
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
Myliobatoidea indet. stingray | |
"Isurus oxyrhynchus" = Isurus oxyrinchus, "Carcharodon sulcidens" = Carcharodon carcharias, "Isurus cf. hastalis" = Carcharodon hastalis
"Isurus oxyrhynchus" = Isurus oxyrinchus Rafinesque 1810 mackerel shark
"Carcharodon sulcidens" = Carcharodon carcharias Linnaeus 1758 great white shark
"Isurus cf. hastalis" = Carcharodon hastalis Agassiz 1838 white shark | |
Mammalia | |
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Camelinae indet. Gray 1821 camel | |
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Nannocetus sp. Kellogg 1929 whale | |
Otariinae indet. Gray 1825 eared seal | |
Odobeninae indet. Allen 1880 walrus | |
Hydrodamalis cuestae Domning 1978 Cuesta sea cow | |
Aves | |
Uria sp., Uria paleohesperis n. sp.3, ? Aethia sp.3, Aethia barnesi n. sp.4, "Praemancalla cf. wetmorei" = Miomancalla wetmorei3, Praemancalla sp., Cepphus sp., Cepphus olsoni n. sp.3
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? Falconidae indet. Vigors 1824 raptor | |
Diomedea sp. Linnaeus 1758 albatross | |
Gavia sp. Forster 1788 loon | |
Actinopteri | |
"Smilodonichthys rastrosus" = Oncorhynchus rastrosus
"Smilodonichthys rastrosus" = Oncorhynchus rastrosus Cavender and Miller 1972 Pacific salmon | |
"cf. Pimelometopon sp." = Semicossyphus
"cf. Pimelometopon sp." = Semicossyphus Günther 1861 sheepshead | |