Canada Tecolote (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Santa Barbara County, California (34.0° N, 120.2° W: paleocoordinates 34.0° N, 120.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Garanon Member (Santa Rosa Island Formation), Rancholabrean (0.3 - 0.0 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray, calcareous claystone

• light-gray calcareous clay

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: P. C. Orr. 1960. Late Pleistocene marine terraces on Santa Rosa Island, California. GSA Bulletin 71(7):1113-1120 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 84901: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 17.11.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cetacea -
Mysticeti indet. Cope 1891 whale
baleen whale
 Carnivora - Otariidae
Otariidae indet. eared seal
sea lion
 Carnivora - Mustelidae
Enhydra lutris Linnaeus 1758 sea otter
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus exilis Maglio 1970 pygmy mammoth
dwarf mammoth
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster