Gay Head marine (Miocene to of the United States)

Where: Dukes County, Massachusetts (41.3° N, 70.8° W: paleocoordinates 41.4° N, 69.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Miocene to Middle Miocene (16.0 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: I. A. Koretsky and C. E. Ray. 2008. Phocidae of the Pliocene of eastern USA. Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publication 14:81-140 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 77694: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 17.01.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Gomphotheriidae indet.
Gomphotheriidae indet. Hay 1922 gomphothere
 Placentalia -
Cetacea indet.
Cetacea indet. Brisson 1762 whale
 Cetacea - Balaenopteridae
Balaenoptera ? sursiplana
Balaenoptera ? sursiplana Cope 1895 rorqual
 Cetacea - Squalodontidae
Squalodon atlanticus
Squalodon atlanticus Leidy 1856 toothed whale
listed as Basilosaurus [=Squalodon] atlanticus
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp.
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Rhinocerotidae indet.
Rhinocerotidae indet. Gray 1821 rhinoceros