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)
• Ti2–Ti3
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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; sandstone and siltstone
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 143202: 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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Nannodectes lynasi Lofgren et al. 2014 primate five m3s RAM 6961 (fig. 4A), RAM 6963 (fig. 4B), RAM 6960 (fig. 4C), RAM 6700 (fig. 4D), RAM 6934, m2 RAM 6446, mx fragment RAM 6935, mx trigonid RAM 6946, M3 RAM 6957 (fig. 5H), M2 RAM 6962 (fig. 5G), P3 RAM 6931 (fig. 5D), and 2 I1s RAM 6431 (fig. 5A), RAM 6929 (fig. 5B)
Plesiadapis cf. anceps Simpson 1936 primate Five m3s (RAM 6960, RAM 6963, RAM 6700, RAM 6961, RAM 6934), 1 m2 (RAM 6446), 1 mx fragment (RAM 6935), 1 mx trigonid (RAM 6946), 1 M3 (RAM 6957), 1 M2(RAM6962), 1 P4 (RAM6931), and 2 I1s (RAM6431, RAM6929)
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