Where: Fresno County, California (36.3° N, 120.3° W: paleocoordinates 36.0° N, 119.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Pliohippus coalingensis mammal zone, Etchegoin Formation, Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. O. Nomland in 1913; reposited in the UCMP

• "The largest portion of this collection was secured by J. O. Nomland, who was making a special study of the Etchegoin."

Primary reference: J. C. Merriam. 1915. Tertiary Vertebrate Faunas of the North Coalinga Region of California. A Contribution to the Study of Palæontologic Correlation in the Great Basin and Pacific Coast Provinces. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 22(3):191-234 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 178905: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 20.05.2016

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