Also known as UCMP IP8894

Where: Kern County, California (35.0° N, 119.0° W: paleocoordinates 35.2° N, 105.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: San Emigdio Formation, Middle Eocene (47.8 - 37.7 Ma)

• Late Eocene, Refugian. Acila shumardi ranges through the middle and upper part of this stage.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Nilsen, T. H. and Dibblee, T. W. in 1972

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 194585: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Susan Tremblay on 22.06.2018

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