Also known as National City

Where: San Diego County, California (32.7° N, 117.1° W: paleocoordinates 32.6° N, 116.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• "encountered at a depth of 12 feet below the surface" in either the "upper strata" of the San Diego Formation, which is "not older than middle Pliocene" (= Hemphillian) or in the overlying "terrace cover, Pleistocene in age"; thought to be most likely Pleistocene

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; conglomerate

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by H. Duncan in 1943; reposited in the CIT

Collection methods: salvage, quarrying,

• found "while making an excavation for a cesspool"

Primary reference: C. Stock. 1944. New occurrences of fossil tapir in southern California. Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History 10(9):127-130 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 113256: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 24.07.2011

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