Where: Ventura County, California (34.3° N, 119.0° W: paleocoordinates 33.7° N, 107.3° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: lower Member (Sespe Formation), Duchesnean (39.7 - 37.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the UCMP
Primary reference: D. R. Prothero and E. H. Vance, Jr. 1996. Magnetostratigraphy of the upper middle Eocene Coldwater Sandstone, central Ventura County, California. In D. R. Prothero and R. J. Emry (eds.), The Terrestrial Eocene-Oligocene Transition in North America 155-170 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 16782: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Duchesneodus sp. Lucas and Schoch 1982 brontothere |