Where: Ventura County, California (34.3° N, 118.8° W: paleocoordinates 33.4° N, 112.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Vaqueros Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Vaqueros Fm, which overlies the the Sespe Fm (Eocene-Miocene). AGE: Early Miocene, presumably on the basis of molluscan and foraminiferal biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From the Turritella inezana zone in the upper part of the Vaqueros Fm.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; argillaceous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Corey; reposited in the UCMP

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: Corey. REPOSITORY: Not stated in text, but probably UCMP.

Primary reference: J. A. Cushman and L. W. Leroy. 1938. A microfauna from the Vaqueros Formation, Lower Miocene, Simi Valley, Ventura County, California. Journal of Paleontology 12(2):117-126 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 91374: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 16.09.2009

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