Also known as UCMP IP9156

Where: California (32.9° N, 118.5° W: paleocoordinates 32.2° N, 114.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)

• middle Miocene; 3 m below the unconformity at the foot of the quarry face

•in beds that resemble the dacite-bearing sandstone unit at Lemon Tank

•Reservoir (South Basin of Mitchell and Lipps, 1965).

Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Vedder, J.G.; reposited in the UCMP, USNM

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: J. G. Vedder and E. J. Moore. 1976. Paleoenvironmental implications of fossiliferous Miocene and Pliocene strata on San Clemente Island, California. In D. G. Howell (ed.), Aspects of the Geologic History of the California Continental Borderland 107-135 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 214405: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 28.09.2020

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