San Diego Zoo (Pliocene of the United States)

Where: San Diego County, California (32.7° N, 117.1° W: paleocoordinates 32.6° N, 116.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• stated to be 3 million years old

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Primary reference: T. Perry. 2010. Whale fossil found at San Diego Zoo. Los Angeles Times [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 98252: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 28.09.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cetacea -
Balaenopteroidea indet. Gray 1868 whale
articulated skeleton