Lawrence Canyon 1 (Neogene of the United States)

Also known as UCMP V6880

Where: San Diego County, California (33.2° N, 117.4° W: paleocoordinates 32.8° N, 114.8° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

When: San Mateo Formation, Hemphillian (10.3 - 4.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; siltstone

• estuarine to fluvial

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: L. G. Barnes, H. Howard, J. H. Hutchison and B. J. Welton. 1981. The vertebrate fossils of the marine Cenozoic San Mateo Formation at Oceanside, California. Geologic Investigations of the Coastal Plain 53-70 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 57909: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 06.01.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Aves
 Falconiformes - Falconidae
? Falco sp. Linnaeus 1758 falcon
Mammalia
 Cetacea - Balaenidae
Balaenula sp. Van Beneden 1872 right whale