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

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Agua Sst Mbr which regionally interfingers the Santos Shale of the lower (type) Temblor Fm (Late Oligocene-Middle Miocene). THICKNESS: Uknown thickness of collection or member. AGE: Early Miocene; Vaqueros molluscan stage. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From basal conglomerate.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, sandy conglomerate

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the UCMP, USNM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTORS: W. O. Addicott (1965). 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 72409: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 02.06.2007, edited by Jonathan Marcot

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