Santa Cruz: Messinian, California

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Isurus hastalis (Agassiz 1838)
Domning 1978
recombined as Carcharodon hastalis
Mammalia - Cetacea
Odontoceti indet. Flower 1867
Domning 1978 1 specimen
new species
Mammalia - Carnivora - Odobenidae
cf. Dusignathus santacruzensis Kellogg 1927
Mammalia - Sirenia - Dugongidae
Odobenidae indet. (Allen 1880)
Domning 1978
    = Dusisiren dewana Takahashi et al. 1986
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]
60295% 34240D. 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]