Also known as AB170610, Careaga Sandstone, HWY 101

Where: Santa Maria County, California (34.8° N, 120.5° W: paleocoordinates 34.7° N, 119.8° W)

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

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite

Collected by Alexandra Buczek, Austin Hendy; reposited in the LACM

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: A. Buczek, A. Hendy, M. Hopkins and J. Sessa. 2020. On the reconciliation of biostratigraphy and strontium isotope stratigraphy of three southern Californian Plio-Pleistocene formations. Geological Society America Bulletin 133(1-2):100-114 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 214278: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Alexandra Buczek on 22.09.2020

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