Where: Santa Barbara County, California (34.9° N, 120.3° W: paleocoordinates 34.8° N, 119.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cebada Member (Careaga Sandstone Formation), Gelasian (2.6 - 1.8 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Cebada Member of the Careaga Sandstone, which overlies the Foxen Mudstone (mid-late Pliocene) and underlies the Paso Robles Fm (Pleistocene). AGE: Late Pliocene, on the basis of foraminiferal and microfossil biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: lower part of exposure.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; poorly lithified, silty sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by W. Popenoe; reposited in the CIT, LACM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTORS: W. Popenoe. REPOSITORY: Formerly California Institute of Technology, now Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.

Primary reference: W. P. Woodring and M.N. Bramlette. 1950. Geology and paleontology of the Santa Maria District California. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 222:1-185 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/S. Ávila]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 207761: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 30.01.2020

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