Where: Fresno County, California (36.6° N, 120.7° W: paleocoordinates 40.5° N, 101.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Moreno Member (Lodo Formation), Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)

• In sandstone layer of formation just above the basal layer of mudstone. Unclear what "Moreno Member" indicates, because the Moreno Formation underlies the Lodo Formation. However, if it is from the Lodo Formation it is presumably from the basal, Paleocene, part.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep-water; lithified, concretionary sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. T. Smith. 1975. Age, Correlation and Possible Tethyan Affinities of Mollusks from the Lodo Formation of Fresno County, California. Paleogene Symposium & Selected Technical Papers: Conference on Future Energy Horizons of the Pacific Coast 464-483 [A. Miller/C. Ferguson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 11120: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 18.07.2001

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