SDNHM 3175 ( of the United States)

Where: San Diego County, California (32.8° N, 117.1° W: paleocoordinates 32.6° N, 116.2° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

When: Lower Member (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 178006: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Advait Jukar on 13.04.2016

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Taxonomic list

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Aves
 Podicipediformes - Podicipedidae
Podiceps arndti
Podiceps arndti Chandler 1990 grebe
 Procellariiformes - Procellariidae
Procellariidae indet., Puffinus kanakoffi
Procellariidae indet. Vigors 1825 petrel
Puffinus kanakoffi Howard 1949 shearwater
 Charadriiformes - Panalcidae
Mancalla milleri
Mancalla milleri Howard 1970 shorebird
 Charadriiformes - Alcoidae
Mancalla emlongi, Synthliboramphus rineyi
Mancalla emlongi Olson 1981 auk
Synthliboramphus rineyi Chandler 1990 auk