Opal Cliffs D: Messinian, California
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Balaenopteridae
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? Balaenoptera bertae
Boessenecker 2013
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1 specimen | ||||||
| recombined as Marzanoptera bertae | |||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | California | County: | Santa Cruz |
| Coordinates: | 37.0° North, 122.0° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 36.6° North, 120.1° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
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: | formation | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: latest Miocene | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: bioclastic | |
| Environment: | foreshore |
| Geology comments: outer shelf to foreshore, possibly estuarine | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Feeding/predation traces: | tooth marks |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | UCMP V85027 | ||
| Database number: | 153704 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | B. Shipps | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2014-01-09 08:48:01 | Last modified: | 2017-02-26 16:08:03 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2014-01-09 08:48:01 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 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] |