Meiners Oaks (UCMP V-82372) (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Ventura County, California (34.3° N, 119.0° W: paleocoordinates 33.7° N, 107.3° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: lower Member (Sespe Formation), Duchesnean (39.7 - 37.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: D. R. Prothero and E. H. Vance, Jr. 1996. Magnetostratigraphy of the upper middle Eocene Coldwater Sandstone, central Ventura County, California. In D. R. Prothero and R. J. Emry (eds.), The Terrestrial Eocene-Oligocene Transition in North America 155-170 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 16782: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
Duchesneodus sp. Lucas and Schoch 1982 brontothere