UCMP V99854, San Gregorio section, Half Moon Bay: Messinian, California

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea
Odontoceti indet. (Flower 1867)
Boessenecker 2013 1 specimen
Mammalia - Cetacea - Phocoenidae
Phocoenidae informal indet. 2 (Gray 1825)
Boessenecker 2013 1 specimen
Mammalia - Cetacea - Cetotheriidae
Herpetocetus bramblei Whitmore and Barnes 2008
Boessenecker 2013 1 specimen
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Cetorhinidae
Cetorhinus maximus (Gunner 1765)
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes - Rajidae
Raja cf. binoculata Girard 1855
recombined as Beringraja binoculata
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:California County:San Mateo
Coordinates: 37.3° North, 122.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.9° North, 120.5° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Messinian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Messinian
Age range of interval:7.24600 - 5.33300 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Purisima
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Powell et al 2007 suggest a Pliocene age
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified sandstone
Environment:coastal indet.
Geology comments: strong influence of physical processes (waves, etc.)
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:UCMP
Metadata
Database number:184950
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2017-04-01 15:28:16 Last modified:2017-04-01 15:28:16
Access level:the public Released:2017-04-01 15:28:16
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

37795. R. W. Boessenecker. 2011. A new marine vertebrate assemblage from the Late Neogene Purisima Formation in Central California, Part I: Fossil sharks, bony fish, birds, and implications for the age of the Purisimia Formation west of the San Gregorio Fault. PalArch's Journal of Vertebrate Palaeontology 8(4):1-30 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

49737 R. W. Boessenecker. 2013. A new marine vertebrate assemblage from the Late Neogene Purisima Formation in Central California, part II: Pinnipeds and Cetaceans. Geodiversitas 35(4):815-939 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]