Also known as USGS loc. 3772

Where: Kern County, California (35.5° N, 119.8° W: paleocoordinates 34.1° N, 111.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wygal Sandstone Member (Temblor Formation), Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Wygal Sst Mbr which regionally overlies the Cymric Shale and is overlain by the Santos Shale of the lower (type) Temblor Fm (Late Oligocene-Middle Miocene). Collection from base of member, where it unconformably overlies the Eocene Point of Rocks Sandstone. THICKNESS: From horizon 6 ft thickness within member that ranges between 20 andf 40 ft in thickness. AGE: Late Oligocene; lower Zemorian foraminiferal staghe, Blakeley molluscan stage. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Presumably near base of member near contact with Point of Rocks Sandstone.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified, shelly/skeletal sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Howard Sonneman and W. O. Addicott; W. O. Addicott; H. C. Wagner, Saburo Kanno, and W. O. Addicott; W. O. Addicott; in 1967; 1968; 1969; 1971; reposited in the UCMP, USNM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• USGS M3280: Howard Sonneman and W. O. Addicott, 1967; H. C. Wagner, Saburo Kanno, and W. O. Addicott, 1969; W. O. Addicott, 1971.

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•USGS 3772: Collected by W. O. Addicott, 1968.

Primary reference: W. O. Addicott. 1973. Oligocene molluscan biostratigraphy and paleontology of the Lower Part of the type Temblor Formation, California. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 791:1-48 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 72406: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 02.06.2007

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