Also known as UCMP V88018, Lomita S, UCMP V36118, UCMP V3413; CIT 388

Where: Los Angeles County, California (33.8° N, 118.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.2° N, 114.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Valmonte Formation, Clarendonian (12.5 - 9.4 Ma)

• age from UCMP database, publications states that it is upper middle Miocene, Temblor phase of the Monterey

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; diatomite

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: G. M. Lyon. 1941. A Miocene sea lion from Lomita, California. University of California Publications in Zoology 47:23-41 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 84331: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 09.10.2008

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