San Luis Obispo, 7 miles east (Miocene of the United States)
Where: California (35.3° N, 120.5° W: paleocoordinates 34.5° N, 116.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Monterey Formation, Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)
• Temblor?
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone
• bituminous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: V. L. VanderHoof. 1937. A study of the Miocene sirenian Desmostylus. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 24(8):169-262 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 159669: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 06.08.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Desmostylus hesperus Marsh 1888 desmostylian | |