Where: Santa Barbara County, California (34.9° N, 120.2° W: paleocoordinates 34.1° N, 115.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, sandy shale

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: H. Howard. 1957. A gigantic "toothed" marine bird from the Miocene of California. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Department of Geology Bulletin 1:1-23 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 124690: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 21.02.2012