Drake Bay Formation

Last updated July 03, 2025

The Drake Bay Formation is a Pliocene stratigraphic unit in California. In 1993, paleontologists excavated a whale skeleton associated with fossil shark teeth and fish vertebrae that may have belonged to a giant salmon from Drake Bay sediments at Point Reyes National Seashore.^[1]

Footnotes

↑ "Point Reyes National Seashore," Hunt, Santucci, and Kenworthy (2006); page 67.

References

Hunt, ReBecca K., Vincent L. Santucci and Jason Kenworthy. 2006. "A preliminary inventory of fossil fish from National Park Service units." in S.G. Lucas, J.A. Spielmann, P.M. Hester, J.P. Kenworthy, and V.L. Santucci (ed.s), Fossils from Federal Lands. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 34, pp. 63–69.

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[nps-fish-pointreyes-67-1] "Point Reyes National Seashore," Hunt, Santucci, and Kenworthy (2006); page 67.

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