Where: Los Angeles County, California (34.4° N, 117.8° W: paleocoordinates 38.5° N, 97.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: San Francisquito Formation, Middle Paleocene (61.7 - 58.7 Ma)

• Description: One fossiliferous sandy-limestone clast weathered out of mudstone about 130 m above the basal uncon­ formity between basement and San Francisquito Formation. Stratigraphic Unit: Ts2

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; intraclastic mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by M. A. Kooser

Primary reference: M. A. Kooser. 1980. Stratigraphy and Sedimentology of the San Francisquito Formation, Transverse Ranges, California. 1-201 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 176920: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 08.03.2016, edited by Jonathan Marcot

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