Where: Santa Barbara County, California (34.7° N, 120.3° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 38.4° N, 108.0° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Rincon Formation), Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)

• From lower Rincon Formation = upper Zemorian. Zemorian=middle to late Oligocene.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, black, brown, gray mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Collected by Avila and Weaver (1964). Not sure of any repositories.

Primary reference: D. E. Weaver. 1969. Geology of the Northern Channel Islands. American Association of Petroleum Geologists - Pacific Section [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 52394: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 04.08.2005

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