Also known as D -1076

Where: Fresno County, California (36.3° N, 120.4° W: paleocoordinates 35.6° N, 116.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• From the lowest three sandstone ledges cropping out on hill. Each ledge is approx. 2.5 feet thick and separated from others by variable intervals of silty sandstone. Total thickness of around 30 ft. From faunizone B (zone 3) (for that reason assigned an middle Miocene age).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; gray, white, calcareous sandstone

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 44980: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 25.09.2004

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