Where: Santa Barbara County, California (34.0° N, 120.0° W: paleocoordinates 32.6° N, 111.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Vaqueros Formation, Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)

• From near base of section, immediately overlying basal Saucesian. Saucesian=latest Oligocene to earliest Miocene.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, coarse-grained, brown sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Collected by Avila and Weaver (1967). Not sure of any repositories.

Primary reference: D. E. Weaver. 1969. Geology of the Northern Channel Islands. American Association of Petroleum Geologists - Pacific Section [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 52381: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 04.08.2005

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