Also known as LACMVP Loc. 7249
Where: Orange County, California (33.6° N, 117.8° W: paleocoordinates 32.7° N, 112.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Topanga Formation, Burdigalian to Burdigalian (20.4 - 13.8 Ma)
• early middle Miocene, Vaqueros-Temblor transition zone
Environment/lithology: gray, green limestone and gray, calcareous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Reposited in the LACM
Primary reference: D. P. Domning. 1978. Sirenian evolution in the North Pacific Ocean. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 118:1-176 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 52180: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 29.07.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Tegula sp. Lesson 1835 snail | |
Turritella inezana Conrad 1857 turret shell | |
Mammalia | |
Paleoparadoxia sp. Reinhart 1959 desmostylian | |
Desmostylus hesperus Marsh 1888 desmostylian | |
Dioplotherium allisoni Kilmer 1965 dugong |