Where: San Diego County, California (33.4° N, 116.1° W: paleocoordinates 33.2° N, 115.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Latrania Sand Member (Imperial Formation), Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Latrania Sand Mbr of Imperial Fm, which is overlain by the Canebrake Conglomerate. AGE: Pliocene, on the basis of molluscan biostratigraphy; placed by enterer in Early Pliocene based on existing collections and similarity with Late Miocene assemblages in California. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within member.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, medium-grained, coarse, yellow sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with calcite

Collected by Bramkamp in 1935; reposited in the UCMP

• COLLECTORS: R. Bramkamp, 1937. REPOSITORY: UCMP.

Primary reference: C. L. Powell. 2008. Pliocene Invertebrates From the Travertine Point Outcrop of the Imperial Formation, Imperial County, California. United States Geological Survey Scientific Investigations 2008(5155):1-25 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 96553: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 11.06.2010

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