Half Moon Bay (Miocene of the United States)

Where: San Mateo County, California (37.5° N, 122.4° W: paleocoordinates 37.0° N, 119.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• no stratigraphic information given except age

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

• no lithological description given

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the MCZ

Primary reference: J. Leidy. 1868. Notice of some extinct cetaceans. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 1868:196-197 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 45482: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 25.10.2004

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cetacea -
"Delphinus occiduus n. sp." = Lonchodelphis occiduus
"Delphinus occiduus n. sp." = Lonchodelphis occiduus Leidy 1868 toothed whale