Also known as LACM 4301, UCMP V68106, SDSNH 2643

Where: San Diego County, California (33.2° N, 117.4° W: paleocoordinates 33.0° N, 116.1° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: San Mateo Formation, Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• Hemphillian: Domning (1978) states the age of this collection is "Middle Pliocene"

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; sandstone and conglomerate

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Reposited in the LACM, UCMP

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

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 50068: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 05.05.2005, edited by John Alroy

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