Also known as Mendocino Coal Mine

Where: Mendocino County, California (39.7° N, 123.3° W: paleocoordinates 39.1° N, 119.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Briones Formation (San Pabo Group), Serravallian to Serravallian (13.8 - 7.2 Ma)

• Temblor or Biones.

•AGE: edited following EPICC stratigraphic revision [6/13/2020].

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the CAS

Primary reference: V. L. VanderHoof. 1937. A study of the Miocene sirenian Desmostylus. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 24(8):169-262 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 159596: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 05.08.2014

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