LACM 6905 (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Orange County, California (33.6° N, 117.7° W: paleocoordinates 33.1° N, 114.8° W)

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When: upper Member (Monterey Formation), Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; diatomaceous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. F. Parham, J. A. Barron, and J. Velez-Juarbe. 2022. Middle and late Miocene marine mammal assemblages from the Monterey Formation of Orange County, California. Geological Society of America Special Paper 556 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 225310: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 02.05.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cetacea - Ziphiidae
aff. Messapicetus sp. Bianucci et al. 1992 beaked whale
 Carnivora - Otariidae
Pithanotaria starri Kellogg 1925 eared seal