Where: San Mateo County, California (37.3° N, 122.4° W: paleocoordinates 37.1° N, 121.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Purisima Formation, Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• Upper part of the section, latest Piacenzian, just below ash bed correlated with 2.4-2.6 Ma tuff
Environment/lithology: coastal; sandstone and siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the UCMP
Primary reference: R. W. Boessenecker. 2011. A new marine vertebrate assemblage from the Late Neogene Purisima Formation in Central California, Part I: Fossil sharks, bony fish, birds, and implications for the age of the Purisimia Formation west of the San Gregorio Fault. PalArch's Journal of Vertebrate Palaeontology 8(4):1-30 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 184957: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.04.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
Cetorhinus maximus Gunner 1765 basking shark | |
Actinopteri | |
Thunnus sp. South 1845 | |
Mammalia | |
"Balaenoptera bertae n. sp." = Marzanoptera bertae
"Balaenoptera bertae n. sp." = Marzanoptera bertae Boessenecker 2013 rorqual |