Branciforte Road palisaides: Tortonian, California
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Odobenidae
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Imagotaria downsi
Mitchell 1968
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | California | County: | Santa Cruz |
| Coordinates: | 37.0° North, 122.0° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 34.6° North, 117.4° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Tortonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Tortonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 11.63000 - 7.24600 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Santa Margarita | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: age after Scheirer and Magoon 2007 | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | white,yellow silty siltstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: yellow to white silty sands | |
| 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: | USGS |
Metadata
| Also known as: | USGS M1106 | ||
| Database number: | 59156 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-03-16 10:07:51 | Last modified: | 2013-11-07 13:51:08 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-03-16 10:07:51 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 16892. | C. A. Repenning and R. H. Tedford. 1977. Otarioid seals of the Neogene. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 992:1-93 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/P. Holroyd] |
Secondary references:
| 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] |
| 36760 | A. H. Scheirer and L. B. Magoon. 2007. Age, Distribution, and Stratigraphic Relationship of Rock Units in the San Joaquin Basin Province, California. USGS Professional Paper 1713(5):1-107 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |