Rancho Del Rey ( of the United States)

Also known as SDNHM 3551

Where: San Diego County, California (32.6° N, 117.0° W: paleocoordinates 32.5° N, 116.1° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

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

• late Pliocene, Blancan

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. A. Deméré. 1994. Two new species of fossil walruses (Pinnipedia: Odobenidae) from the Upper Pliocene San Diego Formation, California. Proceedings of the San Diego Society of Natural History 29:77-98 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 178001: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 13.04.2016

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Carnivora - Odobenidae
Valenictus chulavistensis n. sp. Deméré 1994 walrus