Also known as LACM 4297, V68147

Where: San Diego County, California (33.2° N, 117.4° W: paleocoordinates 32.9° N, 115.5° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

When: San Mateo Formation, Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)

• Hemphillian: Domning (1978) states the age of this collection is "Middle Pliocene"; age after Barnes & Demere, 1991

Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Reposited in the LACM, UCMP

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: L. G. Barnes, H. Howard, J. H. Hutchison and B. J. Welton. 1981. The vertebrate fossils of the marine Cenozoic San Mateo Formation at Oceanside, California. Geologic Investigations of the Coastal Plain 53-70 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 50069: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 05.05.2005, edited by John Alroy