Where: Orange County, California (33.6° N, 117.7° W: paleocoordinates 32.6° N, 111.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Saddleback Valley Limestone Member (Monterey Formation), Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; brown mudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Reposited in the USGS

Primary reference: C. J. Stadum and K. L. Finger. 2016. Paleontology and stratigraphy of the Miocene Saddleback Valley Limestone, Orange County, Southern California. Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 524:31-49 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 196139: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 05.09.2018

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