Where: California (36.0° N, 120.1° W: paleocoordinates 35.8° N, 118.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Etchegoin Formation, Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. B. Blake. 1973. Ossicle morphology of some recent asteroids and description of some West American fossil asteroids. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 104:1-59 [L. Villier/L. Villier]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 59922: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 21.04.2006, edited by Mark Uhen

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