Also known as Garapito Creek; Sylvia Park

Where: Los Angeles County, California (34.1° N, 118.6° W: paleocoordinates 37.9° N, 99.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Coal Canyon Formation, Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)

• "Martinez Provincial Stage... late Paleocene" (Coal Canyon Formation in Squires, 1990)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, concretionary, calcareous siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by J. Alderson; reposited in the LACM

Primary reference: R. L. Squires. 1980. A new species of brachyuran from the Paleocene of California. Journal of Paleontology 54(2):472-476 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 90072: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 06.07.2009, edited by Jonathan Marcot

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