Autonetics plan: Tortonian, California
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Sirenia
- Dugongidae
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Dusisiren jordani
(Kellogg 1925)
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Otariidae
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Pithanotaria starri
Kellogg 1925
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Odobenidae
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Imagotaria downsi
Mitchell 1968
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
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aff. Pithanodelphis sp.
Abel 1905
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Physeteridae
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Physeteridae indet.
Gray 1821
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Cetotheriidae
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Cetotheriidae indet.
(Brandt 1872)
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Actinopteri
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Teleostei indet.
Müller 1846
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Lamnidae
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Isurus sp.
Rafinesque 1810
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Cetorhinidae
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Cetorhinus sp.
de Blainville 1816
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | California | County: | Orange |
| Coordinates: | 33.6° North, 117.7° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 33.1° North, 114.9° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Tortonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Tortonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 11.63000 - 7.24600 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Monterey | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: probably upper Monterey |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | yellow silty sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: yellow-orange silty sand | |
| Environment: | basinal (siliciclastic) |
| Geology comments: deep Pacific basin | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | LACM |
Metadata
| Also known as: | LACM 6906J | ||
| Database number: | 52213 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-08-01 09:47:53 | Last modified: | 2018-10-13 11:40:46 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-08-01 09:47:53 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 6029. | 5% 34240 | D. P. Domning. 1978. Sirenian evolution in the North Pacific Ocean. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 118:1-176 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 40896 | I. Magallanes, J. F. Parham, G.-P. Santos and J. Velez-Juarbe. 2018. A new tuskless walrus from the Miocene of Orange County, California, with comments on the diversity and taxonomy of odobenids. PeerJ 6:e5708 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap/M. Uhen] |