Also known as UCMP IP8678, UCLA 3552

Where: Kern County, California (34.9° N, 119.3° W: paleocoordinates 35.2° N, 106.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Liveoak Shale Member (Tejon Formation), Middle Eocene (47.8 - 37.7 Ma)

• Early or middle Eocene, "Capay Stage" or "Domengine Stage."

•Ectinochilus macilentus is of common occurrence in strata of "Domengine" age along the western margin of the San Joaquin Valley at Reef Ridge and near Coalinga. It has recently been reported from strata correlated with the lower Eocene "Capay Stage" in southern California.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Nilsen, T. H. in 1971

Primary reference: T. H. Nilsen. 1987. Stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Eocene Tejon Formation, western Tehachapi and San Emigdio mountains, California. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1268:1-110 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/R. McClees-Funinan]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 194441: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Susan Tremblay on 19.06.2018

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