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

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