Sulphur Creek Reservoir: Late/Upper Pliocene, California
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Sirenia
- Dugongidae
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Hydrodamalis cuestae
Domning 1978
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | California | County: | Orange |
| Coordinates: | 33.5° North, 117.7° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 33.4° North, 116.8° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
| Stage: | Piacenzian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pliocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 3.60000 - 2.58000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Capistrano | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: siltstone member |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | siltstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: gray siltstone grading upward into orange pebbly sandstone | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | LACM |
Metadata
| Also known as: | LACM 6626 | ||
| Database number: | 52227 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-08-01 11:09:23 | Last modified: | 2005-08-01 14:09:23 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-08-01 11:09:22 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 6029. | 5% 34240 | D. P. Domning. 1978. Sirenian evolution in the North Pacific Ocean. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 118:1-176 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |