Also known as BX-61-1A

Where: Stanislaus County, California (37.3° N, 121.2° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 46.1° N, 90.8° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tesla Formation, Ypresian to Ypresian (56.0 - 41.0 Ma)

• Laguna Seca or Tesla Formation. Paleocene-E. Eocene [Paleocene seems most likely]. COMMENTS: Tesla Fm according to Dibblee & Minch (2007), which spans the Cretaceous to Eocene; placed here in the middle-lower Eocene = Ypresian-Lutetian following Dibblee & Minch (2007). See also Saul & Squires (2004) for additional discussion.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by B.F. Cox in 1991; reposited in the USGS

Primary reference: W. P. Elder and J. W. Miller. 1993. Map and checklists of Jurassic and Cretaceous macrofossil localities within the San Jose 1:100,000 Quadrangle, California, and discussion of paleontological results. United States Geological Survey Open-File Report 93-503:1-49 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 185458: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.04.2017

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