Also known as LACM 1625, LACM 1655, LACM 3160, LACM 3162, LACM 3205, LACM 3499, LACM 4173, LACM 4672, LACM 4874, LACM 6069, 6688
Where: Kern County, California (35.5° N, 118.9° W: paleocoordinates 35.3° N, 113.7° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Round Mountain Member (Temblor Formation), Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)
• Sharktooth Hill Bonebed
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the LACM
Primary reference: L. G. Barnes. 1988. A new fossil pinniped (Mammalia: Otariidae) from the middle Miocene Sharktooth Hill Bonebed, California. Contributions in Science 396:1-11 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 59059: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 08.03.2006, edited by Patricia Holroyd, James Parham and Jonathan Marcot
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Isurus sp.7, Isurus planus7, "Isurus hastalis" = Carcharodon hastalis7, "Carcharodon sulcidens" = Carcharodon carcharias7
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"Carcharodon megalodon" = Otodus megalodon7
"Carcharodon megalodon" = Otodus megalodon7 Agassiz 1835 megalodon Also studied in Pimiento and Balk (LACM 115396, LACM 129862-63)
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Fulmarus miocaenus n. sp.4, Puffinus sp.12, Puffinus inceptor n. sp.12, Puffinus ? inceptor3, Puffinus mitchelli7, Puffinus priscus3
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Pandion homalopteron n. sp.11
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Pelagiarctos thomasi n. gen. n. sp. Barnes 1988 walrus | |
"Allodesmus cf. sadoensis" = Allodesmus sinanoensis10 Nagao 1941 pinniped LACM 21023 from LACM loc. 1625
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Scombroidea indet.7 Rafinesque-Schmaltz 1815 |