Cabrillo Canyon: Piacenzian, California
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Balaenopteridae
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Eschrichtius davidsonii n. sp.
Cope 1872
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1 specimen | ||||||
| recombined as Balaenoptera davidsonii | |||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | California | County: | San Diego |
| Coordinates: | 32.7° North, 117.2° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 32.6° North, 116.2° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
| Stage: | Piacenzian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Piacenzian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 3.60000 - 2.58000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | San Diego | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Blancan, late Pliocene | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | offshore shelf |
| Geology comments: shoreface to middle shelf | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | 11th Avenue | ||
| Database number: | 85169 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | B. Shipps | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2008-12-04 08:47:17 | Last modified: | 2017-02-26 16:15:42 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2008-12-04 08:47:17 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 15081. | 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] |