Santa Cruz, offshore (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Monterey County, California (36.9° N, 122.0° W: paleocoordinates 36.9° N, 122.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Rancholabrean (0.3 - 0.0 Ma)

• 14C 18,940 +- 1,100 yr BP

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Primary reference: R. E. Jones. 1967. A Hydrodamalis skull fragment from Monterey Bay, California. Journal of Mammalogy 48(1):143-144 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 65166: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 19.09.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Sirenia - Dugongidae
Hydrodamalis gigas Zimmermann 1780 Steller's sea cow