Where: Kern County, California (35.7° N, 120.0° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 39.4° N, 110.9° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Temblor Formation, Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• "Gypsiferous shales immediately underlying the Vaqueros (lower Miocene) bed." Currently mapped as the Temblor Formation (Media Shale and Buttonbed Sandstone Members).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, gypsiferous shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Ralph Arnold in 1907; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: M. J. Rathbun. 1908. Descriptions of fossil crabs from California. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 35:341-349 [C. Schweitzer/S. Yost/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 139850: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 19.02.2013, edited by Mark Uhen

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