Also known as UCMP Collection # P252

Where: Churchill County, Nevada (39.4° N, 119.0° W: paleocoordinates 40.0° N, 116.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Desert Peak Formation), Early/Lower Clarendonian (12.5 - 9.4 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; poorly lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression, original carbon

Reposited in the UCMP

Collection methods: mechanical,

Primary reference: D. I. Axelrod. 1956. Mio-Pliocene floras from west-central Nevada. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 33:1-321 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 27661: authorized by Bruce Tiffney, entered by Bruce Tiffney on 17.12.2002

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