Goleta, north: Chattian, California
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
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Mysticeti indet.
Cope 1891
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | California | County: | Santa Barbara |
| Coordinates: | 34.5° North, 119.8° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 33.1° North, 111.6° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Oligocene |
| Stage: | Chattian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 4 |
| Key time interval: | Chattian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 27.82000 - 23.03000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Vaqueros | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Arikareean |
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 45813 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2004-12-03 12:58:56 | Last modified: | 2006-01-30 11:44:30 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-12-03 12:58:56 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 12153. | E. D. Mitchell. 1996. A new edentulous cetacean with short, arched rostrum from Late Oligocene rocks of Santa Barbara County, California. The Paleontological Society 8:278 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |