Where: Los Angeles County, California (34.1° N, 118.6° W: paleocoordinates 37.8° N, 99.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Coal Canyon Formation, Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)

• Originally described as "Martinez," but now mapped as Coal Canyon (Yerkes and Campbell 1994). AGE: Changed to Thanetian following EPICC stratigraphic revision [A. Hendy, 6/2020].

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the CAS

• Leland Stanford Junior University Paleontology Collections, eventually transferred to the California Academy of Sciences

Primary reference: C. A. Waring. 1917. Stratigraphic and faunal relations of the Martinez to the Chico and Tejon of Southern California. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 7(4):41-124 [L. Villier/L. Villier]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 193036: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 04.05.2018

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