Also known as D-1063

Where: Fresno County, California (35.9° N, 120.2° W: paleocoordinates 35.2° N, 115.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Temblor Formation, Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)

• Sandstone bed with a conglomerate layer at its base. The basal portion of this bed (approx. 8 inches) is richly fossiliferous. Some sandy concretions immediately above this bed also contain a few fossils. From faunizone B (zone 4) (for that reason assigned an middle Miocene age).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, brown, blue, silty, conglomeratic sandstone and concretionary, sandy siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the UCMP

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Collected by O. Adegoke. Collectetions reposited at UCMP.

Primary reference: O.S. Adegoke. 1969. Stratigraphy and paleontology of the marine Neogene formations of the Coalinga region, California. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 80 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 44968: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 23.09.2004

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