Also known as USGS M1108

Where: Santa Cruz County, California (37.0° N, 122.1° W: paleocoordinates 34.6° N, 117.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• lower part of the Santa Margarita Formation; age after Scheirer and Magoon 2007

Environment/lithology: marine; coarse-grained, conglomeratic sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Reposited in the USGS

Collection methods: sieve,

Primary reference: L. G. Barnes. 1978. A review of Lophocetus and Liolithax and their relationships to the delphinoid family Kentriodontidae (Cetacea: Odontoceti). Bulletin of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 28:1-35 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 59161: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 16.03.2006

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