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). THICKNESS: From bed of unknown thickness within member that ranges between 20 and 40 ft in thickness. AGE: Late Oligocene; lower Zemorian foraminiferal staghe, Blakeley molluscan stage. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Collection from about 10-30 ft above the base.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the UCMP, USNM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTORS: W. O. Addicott (1971). REPOSITORY: USGS, USNM and UCMP amongst other collections.

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 72408: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 02.06.2007

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