Also known as UCMP V6969

Where: Santa Cruz County, California (36.9° N, 121.9° W: paleocoordinates 36.4° N, 119.0° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

When: Purisima Formation, Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

• correlated with the "Jacalitos" provisional mega-invertebrate stage of Addicott (1972) and indirectly with the Hemphillian NALMA, approximately 6 to 8 million years old

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: L. G. Barnes. 1985. Fossil pontoporiid dolphins (Mammalia: Cetacea) from the Pacific Coast of North America. Contributions in Science 363:1-34 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 46297: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 10.01.2005

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