Where: Ventura County, California (34.3° N, 119.0° W: paleocoordinates 34.5° N, 105.8° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Member (Sespe Formation), Uintan (46.2 - 39.7 Ma)
• CS 7 horizon
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Primary reference: T. S. Kelly and D. P. Whistler. 1994. Additional Uintan and Duchesnean (Middle and Late Eocene) mammals from the Sespe Formation, Simi Valley, California. Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 439:1-29 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 16799: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 30.04.1994
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Metanoiamys cf. marinus1 Chiment and Korth 1996 rodent "Namatomys" cf. fantasma of Kelly 1992b from LACM 5869; "likely" marinus
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