Also known as Laudate Discovery Site; UCMP V-5252 (= UCMP V-5502, RAM V94014), UCMP V-5870 (= RAM V94133)

Where: Kern County, California (35.5° N, 117.8° W: paleocoordinates 42.8° N, 100.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: 4a Member (Goler Formation), Tiffanian (61.7 - 56.8 Ma)

• believed to be Puercan or Torrejonian by McKenna et al., but "definitely Tiffanian" according to McKenna and Lofgren 2003

•from "near the base of information member 4b (formerly Tgsu)"

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•Lofgren et al. 2014: The mammalian fauna from member 4a and the lower part of member 4b is collectively referred to as the Goler Assemblage. the Goler Assemblage is probably middle Tiffanian (Ti3–Ti4a), although a Ti5a age is also possible.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; conglomerate and sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by M. McKenna in 1955; reposited in the UCMP

Collection methods: bulk, surface (float), sieve,

Primary reference: R. M. West. 1970. Tetraclaenodon puercensis (Mammalia: Phenacodontidae), Goler Formation, Paleocene of California, and distribution of the genus. Journal of Paleontology 44(5):851-857 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 14872: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993, edited by Philip Mannion, Patricia Holroyd, Grace Varnham and Matthew Carrano

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