Also known as UCMP V99859

Where: San Mateo County, California (37.3° N, 122.4° W: paleocoordinates 37.1° N, 121.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• within the uppermost part of the San Gregorio section of the Purisima Formation; San Gregorio Section (after Boessenecker, 2013)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: R. A. Racicot, T. A. Deméré, B. L. Beatty and R. W. Boessenecker. 2014. Unique feeding morphology in a new prognathous extinct porpoise from the Pliocene of California. Current Biology [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 154907: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 18.03.2014

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