Where: Santa Barbara County, California (34.6° N, 120.4° W: paleocoordinates 34.1° N, 117.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

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

• originally Sisquoc Formation

•age based on Magallanes et al., 2018

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; diatomite

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Primary reference: E. D. Mitchell. 1968. The Mio-Pliocene pinniped Imagotaria. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada 25(9):1843-1900 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 58988: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 03.03.2006

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