Cabrillo Canyon (Pliocene of the United States)
Also known as 11th Avenue
Where: San Diego County, California (32.7° N, 117.2° W: paleocoordinates 32.6° N, 116.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: San Diego Formation, Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• Blancan, late Pliocene
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithology not reported
• shoreface to middle shelf
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: E. D. Cope. 1872. On an extinct whale from California. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 1872:29-30 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 85169: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 04.12.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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| Mammalia | |
"Eschrichtius davidsonii n. sp." = Balaenoptera davidsonii
"Eschrichtius davidsonii n. sp." = Balaenoptera davidsonii Cope 1872 rorqual | |