Where: Santa Barbara County, California (34.4° N, 119.7° W: paleocoordinates 34.2° N, 118.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• found "at a depth of fifty feet from the surface of the deposit"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by D. B. Rogers in 1931

Collection methods: quarrying,

• material is in the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History

Primary reference: H. Howard. 1932. A new species of cormorant from Pliocene deposits near Santa Barbara California. Condor 34(3):118-120 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 84516: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 28.10.2008

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