Also known as Barker Ranch

Where: Kern County, California (35.4° N, 118.9° W: paleocoordinates 35.3° N, 112.7° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Olcese Sand Member (Temblor Formation), Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• Hemingfordian

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the CAS

Primary reference: R. H. Tedford, T. Galusha, M. F. Skinner, B. E. Taylor, R. W. Fields, J. R. Macdonald, J. M. Rensberger, S. D. Webb, and D. P. Whistler. 1987. Faunal succession and biochronology of the Arikareean through Hemphillian interval (late Oligocene through earliest Pliocene epochs) in North America. In M. O. Woodburne (ed.), Cenozoic Mammals of North America: Geochronology and Biostratigraphy 153-210 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 19151: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002, edited by Mark Uhen

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