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Camp Pendleton

US / CA
33.26389, -117.30222View on MapOpen in Google Maps
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Camp Pendleton is a fossil collection site in San Diego, California, cataloged in the Paleobiology Database. Fossils here come from the San Mateo Formation, dated to the Late Pliocene (3.6–2.58 million years ago). The depositional environment is recorded as marine indet. Documented finds include Hydrodamalis cuestae.

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Fossil

Geologic setting

Formation
San Mateo
Geologic interval
Late Pliocene
Age
3.6–2.58 Ma
Depositional environment
marine indet.
Recorded occurrences
1
Locality notes

cut at NW end o fearth dam near head of Newton Canyon

Fossils found here

Hydrodamalis cuestae
Mammalia · Dugongidae

Records and references

Data: Paleobiology Database collection 52221 (CC BY 4.0)view the source record

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Coordinates: 33.26389, -117.30222

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