Where: California (35.3° N, 119.6° W: paleocoordinates 35.3° N, 119.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• Woody stem fragments from Pierce's excavation of site 4 yielded an age of 7645 +/1 250 yr B.P. (QC-782) (Miller, 1983).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: tar; poorly lithified tar

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original chitin

Collected by Leonard Bessom in 1947; reposited in the LACM

Primary reference: W. D. Pierce. 1948. Fossil arthropods of California 15. Some Hemiptera from the McKittrick asphalt field. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 47:21-33 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 161518: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 07.09.2014

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