Santa Cruz: Messinian, California
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Lamnidae
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Isurus hastalis
(Agassiz 1838)
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Domning 1978 | |||||||||
recombined as Carcharodon hastalis | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Cetacea
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Odontoceti indet.
Flower 1867
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Domning 1978 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
new species | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Odobenidae
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cf. Dusignathus santacruzensis
Kellogg 1927
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Mammalia
- Sirenia
- Dugongidae
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Odobenidae indet.
(Allen 1880)
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Domning 1978 | |||||||||
= Dusisiren dewana
Takahashi et al. 1986
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Domning and Furusawa 1995 | |||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | California | County: | Santa Cruz |
Coordinates: | 37.0° North, 122.0° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 35.3° North, 118.9° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
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: | formation |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | glauconitic conglomerate |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: glauconitic pebble bed | |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Museum repositories: | UCMP |
Metadata
Also known as: | UCMP V73006, USGS M1109 | ||
Database number: | 52217 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2005-08-01 10:28:28 | Last modified: | 2019-01-30 16:07:59 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-08-01 10:28:28 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
12664. | R. Kellogg. 1927. Fossil Pinnipeds from California. Contributions to Palaeontology from the Carnegie Institution of Washington 27-37 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
34518 | L. G. Barnes and F. A. Perry. 1989. A toothless walrus from the Purisima Formation in California, U.S.A. Abstracts, 8th biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals 5 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
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] |
18605 | D. P. Domning and H. Furusawa. 1995. Summary of taxa and distribution of Sirenia in the North Pacific Ocean. The Island Arc 3:506-512 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
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] |