Also known as UCMP V71197

Where: Santa Cruz County, California (37.0° N, 122.0° W: paleocoordinates 37.1° N, 120.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Santa Margarita Formation, Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

• age after Scheirer and Magoon 2007

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; white, yellow, silty siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: C. A. Repenning and R. H. Tedford. 1977. Otarioid seals of the Neogene. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 992:1-93 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 59157: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 16.03.2006

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