SDNHM 4393 ( of the United States)

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

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

When: 6 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 178017: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Advait Jukar on 13.04.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Aves
 Charadriiformes - Alcoidae
 Charadriiformes - Laridae
Rissa estesi n. sp.
Rissa estesi n. sp. Chandler 1990 gull
 Procellariiformes - Diomedeidae
"Diomedea howardae" = Phoebastria albatrus
"Diomedea howardae" = Phoebastria albatrus Pallas 1769 short-tailed albatross
 Procellariiformes - Procellariidae
Puffinus sp. Brisson 1760 shearwater
 Suliformes - Sulidae
Sula clarki n. sp.
Sula clarki n. sp. Chandler 1990 booby