Where: Santa Barbara County, California (34.6° N, 120.3° W: paleocoordinates 34.1° N, 117.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Monterey Formation, Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)
• early late Miocene
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Primary reference: M. A. Bell. 1977. A late Miocene marine threespine stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus aculeatus and its zoogeographic and evolutionary signficance. 1977(2):277-282 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 52211: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 01.08.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri | |
Gasterosteus aculeatus Linnaeus 1758 three-spined stickleback |