Where: Kern County, California (35.5° N, 117.8° W: paleocoordinates 42.8° N, 100.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: 3 Member (Goler Formation), Tiffanian (61.7 - 56.8 Ma)

• believed to be Puercan or Torrejonian by McKenna et al., but "definitely Tiffanian" according to McKenna and Lofgren 2003

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: concretion

Reposited in the UCMP

Collection methods: surface (float)

Primary reference: M. C. McKenna, J. H. Hutchison, and J. H. Hartman. 1987. Paleocene vertebrates and nonmarine Mollusca from the Goler Formation, California. In B. F. Cox (ed.), Basin Analysis and Paleontology of the Paleocene and Eocene Goler Formation, El Paso Mountains, California 31-41 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 169439: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 25.05.2015

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