Also known as GTO-12B
Where: Guanajuato, Mexico (21.1° N, 100.8° W: paleocoordinates 21.2° N, 100.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Rancho Viejo Beds Formation, Blancan (4.9 - 1.8 Ma)
• correlated with chron C2An.2r; immediately overlies a fission track on zircon date of 3.9 +/- 0.3 Ma
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial; poorly lithified, gray, green, white, silty, sandy claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. J. Flynn, B. J. Kowallis, C. Nuñez, O. Carranza-Castañeda, W. E. Miller, C. C. Swisher, III, and E. Lindsay. 2005. Geochronology of Hemphillian-Blancan aged strata, Guanajuato, Mexico, and implications for the timing of the Great American Biotic Interchange. Journal of Geology 113:287-307 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 70112: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 17.03.2007
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