Where: Imperial County, California (32.8° N, 116.0° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 33.6° N, 114.3° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Imperial Formation, for which lithostratigraphic relationships are not discussed. AGE: Early Pliocene, based on existing (more recent) collections. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From lower division of Carrizo Formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Kew, English, Buwalda in 1912; reposited in the UCMP

Collection methods: bulk,

• COLLECTORS: W.S.W. Kew, W.W. English, and J.P. Buwalda. REPOSITORY: UCMP.

Primary reference: G. D. Hanna. 1926. Paleontology of Coyote Mountain, Imperial County, California. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 14(18):427-503 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 96539: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 11.06.2010, edited by Uta Merkel, Mark Uhen and Jonathan Marcot

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