Where: Kern County, California (35.5° N, 117.8° W: paleocoordinates 42.8° N, 100.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: 4b Member (Goler Formation), Tiffanian (61.7 - 56.8 Ma)
• Ti4
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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.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial; brown, red conglomerate and sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: surface (float)
Primary reference: D. L. Lofgren, J. G. Honey, M. C. McKenna, R. L. Zondervan, and E. E. Smith. 2008. Paleocene primates from the Goler Formation of the Mojave Desert in California. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Science Series 41:11-28 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 143201: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 20.04.2013, edited by Grace Varnham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Plesiadapis cf. churchilli Gingerich 1975 primate RAM 7193 (Partial right mandible with talonid fragment of p4, m1, and broken m2)
Nannodectes lynasi Lofgren et al. 2014 primate RAM 7193, partial right dentary with talonid fragment of p4, m1 and broken m2
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