Where: Santa Cruz County, California (37.0° N, 121.9° W: paleocoordinates 36.8° N, 121.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Purisima Formation, Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• this part of the formation is considered by W. O. Addicott to be of late Pliocene age and to be correlative to the lower part of the Merced Formation of the San Francisco Peninnsula

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. A. Repenning and R. H. Tedford. 1977. Otarioid seals of the Neogene. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 992:1-93 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 152072: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 05.11.2013

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