Also known as SDSNH locality 3843, SDSNH locality 3845

Where: Orange County, California (33.5° N, 117.7° W: paleocoordinates 33.2° N, 115.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Capistrano Formation, Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Primary reference: T. A. Deméré and A. Berta. 2005. New skeletal material of Thalassoleon (Otariidae: Pinnipedia) from the late Miocene-early Pliocene (Hemphillian) of California. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 45(4):379-411 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 76007: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 08.11.2007

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