Also known as D-1206

Where: Fresno County, California (36.0° N, 120.3° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 37.8° N, 116.6° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: McClure Shale Member (Monterey Formation), Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• Beds crop out along the gully which runs up the north slope of Tar Peak at an elevation fo about 2,100 ft. These beds overlier outcrops of typical Temblor coarse, calcareous sandstone.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep-water; lithified, brown, gray, silty, calcareous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the UCMP

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Collections reposited in UCMP collections. Collected and identified by Adegoke.

Primary reference: O.S. Adegoke. 1969. Stratigraphy and paleontology of the marine Neogene formations of the Coalinga region, California. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 80 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 44425: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 10.09.2004

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