SDNHM 2996 ( of the United States)

Where: San Diego County, California (32.7° N, 117.2° W: paleocoordinates 32.6° N, 116.2° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

When: San Diego Formation, Blancan (4.9 - 1.8 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

• Sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. M. Chandler. 1990. Fossil birds of the San Diego Formation, Late Pliocene, Blancan, San Diego County, California. Ornithological Monographs 44:73-161 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 177991: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Advait Jukar on 13.04.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Aves
 Charadriiformes - Alcoidae