Also known as UCMP IP6967

Where: Monterey County, California (36.0° N, 120.7° W: paleocoordinates 35.6° N, 118.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Pancho Rico Formation, Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)

• Described in reference as Pliocene. Pancho Rico Formation is Miocene per Addicott 1978 (Geological Survey Bulletin, Issue 1457). AGE: Revised to Messian consistent with EPICC stratigraphic revision [A. Hendy, 06/2020].

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by D. L Durham, W. O. Addicott in 1964

Primary reference: D. L. Durham and W. O. Addicott. 1965. Pancho Rico Formation, Salinas Valley. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 524(A):A1-A22 [P. Holroyd/S. Tremblay]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 195030: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Susan Tremblay on 12.07.2018

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