Also known as LACM 1181

Where: Santa Cruz County, California (37.0° N, 122.0° W: paleocoordinates 35.3° N, 118.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Purisima Formation, Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Reposited in the LACM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: E. D. Mitchell. 1962. A walrus and a sea lion from the Pliocene Purisima Formation at Santa Cruz, California: with remarks on the type locality and geologic age of the sea lion Dusignathus santacruzensis Kellogg. Los Angeles County Museum Contributions in Science 56:1-24 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 58990: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 03.03.2006

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