San Miguel Island V-2 (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Santa Barbara County, California (34.0° N, 120.4° W: paleocoordinates 34.0° N, 120.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: eolian; lithology not reported

• eolianite

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. A. Guthrie. 1992. A late Pleistocene avifauna from San Miguel Island, California. Science Series (Los Angeles) 36:319-327 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 120826: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 22.11.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Aves
 Anseriformes - Anatidae
Chendytes lawi Miller 1925 Law's diving-goose
 Charadriiformes - Alcoidae
Fratercula dowi Guthrie et al. 2000 puffin