UCMP V99851, San Gregorio section, Half Moon Bay: Messinian, California
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Phocoenidae
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Phocoenidae indet.
(Gray 1825)
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Boessenecker 2013 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| Species C of Barnes 1977 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Balaenidae
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cf. Eubalaena informal sp. 1
Gray 1864
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Boessenecker 2013 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Balaenopteridae
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Balaenopteridae indet.
Gray 1864
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Boessenecker 2013 | |||||||||
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cf. Balaenoptera sp.
Lacépède 1804
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Boessenecker 2013 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Lamnidae
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Carcharodon sp.
Smith 1838
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Squalomorphii
- Hexanchidae
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cf. Hexanchus sp.
Rafinesque 1810
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | California | County: | San Mateo |
| Coordinates: | 37.3° North, 122.4° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 36.9° North, 120.5° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Messinian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Messinian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 7.24600 - 5.33300 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Purisima | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Powell et al 2007 suggest a Pliocene age | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified sandstone |
| Environment: | coastal indet. |
| Geology comments: strong influence of physical processes (waves, etc.) | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Museum repositories: | UCMP |
Metadata
| Database number: | 117470 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2011-09-22 03:28:11 | Last modified: | 2017-04-01 15:31:53 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-09-22 03:28:11 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 37795. | R. W. Boessenecker. 2011. A new marine vertebrate assemblage from the Late Neogene Purisima Formation in Central California, Part I: Fossil sharks, bony fish, birds, and implications for the age of the Purisimia Formation west of the San Gregorio Fault. PalArch's Journal of Vertebrate Palaeontology 8(4):1-30 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 49737 | R. W. Boessenecker. 2013. A new marine vertebrate assemblage from the Late Neogene Purisima Formation in Central California, part II: Pinnipeds and Cetaceans. Geodiversitas 35(4):815-939 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |