Also known as UCMP V66128

Where: Marin County, California (38.0° N, 123.0° W: paleocoordinates 37.9° N, 120.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Drakes Bay Formation, Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)

• Hemphillian, 903+-0.5 my; Pyenson et al. (2013) refer to this as the Purisima Formation (=Drakes Bay Fm.) following Clark et al. (1984). Messinian age after Pyenson et al. (2013).

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

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 59162: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 16.03.2006

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