Where: Humboldt County, California (40.8° N, 123.9° W: paleocoordinates 40.7° N, 123.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Falor Formation, Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
• early to middle Pleistocene
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; fine-grained, gray, calcareous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: VMW, Sierra College Natural History Museum, Rocklin, CA
Primary reference: R. W. Boessenecker. 2013. Pleistocene survival of an archaic dwarf baleen whale (Mysticeti: Cetotheriidae). Naturwissenschaften [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 141506: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 28.03.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Herpetocetus sp. Van Beneden 1872 whale |