Also known as UCMP V-69141

Where: Santa Cruz County, California (37.0° N, 122.0° W: paleocoordinates 36.5° N, 119.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

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

• approximately 15 to 20 feet betlow contact with overlying mudstone, Latest Miocene, Delmontian foraminiferal stage, early Clarendonian North American Land Mammal age, correlated approximately with the Sarmatian Age of Europe; age after Scheirer and Magoon 2007

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; coarse-grained sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: L. G. Barnes. 1972. Miocene Desmatophocinae (Mammalia: Carnivora) from California. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 89:1-76 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 59982: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 25.04.2006

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